Suffragan diocese Torreón, Mexico
Diocese of Torreón
Torreonen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese seated in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico, covering the five municipalities of the Laguna region. Erected on 19 June 1957, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Durango and its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
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- Established
- 1957
- Catholics
- 694,034
- Priests
- 91
- Territory
- 22,479 km²
Parishes and churches
70 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Parroquia Santa CeciliaAtlixtacMass times recorded
- Parroquia Santa Madre de DiosTorreónView parish
- Parroquia Santa María del Milagro de CanáTorreónView parish
- Parroquia Santa Teresita del Niño JesúsTorreónMass times recorded
- Parroquia Santiago ApóstolViescaView parish
- Parroquia Santo CristoTorreónView parish
- Parroquia-Santuario Nuestra Señora de GuadalupeTorreónView parish
- Santuario Cristo de las NoasTorreónView parish
- Santuario Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo SocorroTorreónView parish
- Templo ExpiatorioSan PedroView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Luis Martin Barraza Beltran
- Born
- 22 November 1963
- Birthplace
- Ciudad Camargo
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The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel stands in Torreón, 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.
History
Erected on 19 June 1957 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Durango, the Diocese of Torreón (Latin: Dioecesis Torreonensis) was the second diocese created in the state of Coahuila. Its territory, which before 1959 belonged to the Diocese of Saltillo, consists of the five municipalities of the state's Laguna region: Torreón, Francisco I. Madero, Viesca, Matamoros and San Pedro.
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Pbro. José de Jesús Ortega Montes promotes "esperanza vocacional" at assembly
Priest José de Jesús Ortega Montes urged participants at a provincial assembly in Durango to replace the term vocational crisis with vocational hope. Speaking during the first talk of the assembly held on September 18 and 19, Ortega Montes, the executive secretary for the Commission for Vocations and Ministries of the CEM, said that building a culture of vocation is the way to recover this hope. Ortega Montes cautioned against clericalizing the topic of vocations. He noted a common tendency to view a culture of vocation solely as recruiting young people for houses of formation, promoting prayer for vocations, or forming parish vocational groups with a heavy focus on the priesthood. The priest highlighted that while Mexico has 31 million people between the ages of 15 and 29, the Church often fails to meet the needs of this demographic. He suggested that the Church may be failing to address the violence affecting Mexican youth, questioning if the Church's lifestyle inspires them or if it has been negligent in responding to their realities. He noted these challenges are particularly severe in areas ranging from the coast of Mazatlán to the Comarca Lagunera semi-desert.
- Mons. Faustino Armendáriz leads XII Asamblea Provincial de Pastoral
- Diocese of Torreón publishes article
- Diocese of Torreón publishes history of Parroquia de la Transfiguración del Señor
- Diocese of Torreón takes over San Judas Tadeo parish
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