Diocese of Tehuantepec
Tehuantepecen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tehuantepec, Mexico
Latin rite diocese in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region of Oaxaca, Mexico, erected on 23 June 1891 from the Dioceses of Veracruz and Antequera. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antequera (Oaxaca).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 June 1891
- Latin
- Tehuantepecen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001003190
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,320,000
- Priests
- 58
- Catholics per priest
- 22,759
- Extent
- 25,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 53
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Crispin Ojeda Marquez
- Born
- 19 March 1952
- Birthplace
- Tecomán
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral de Santo Domingo stands in Tehuantepec, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Antequera (Oaxaca)
A suffragan of Antequera.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Antequera, OaxacaAntequera, Oaxaca
- Diocese of Puerto EscondidoPuerto Escondido
- Territorial Prelature of HuautlaHuautla
- Territorial Prelature of MixesMixes
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Erected in 1891 from the Dioceses of Veracruz and Antequera, the Diocese of Tehuantepec (Latin: Dioecesis Tehuantepecensis) is a Latin Church jurisdiction in Mexico and a suffragan within the province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Apartado 93, Calle Mina s/n, 70760 Tehuantepec, Oax., México
- Telephone
- [971]715-00-60
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].