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Suffragan diocese Ciudad Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Diocese of Nuevo Laredo

Novolareden(sis)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas, Mexico, was erected in 1989 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Monterrey. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit and Bishop Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez was appointed ordinary in 2025, taking canonical possession in January 2026.

On the map

Esri
Ciudad Guerrero, Mexico, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1989
Catholics
791,000
Priests
67
Territory
19,383 km²

Parishes and churches

45 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Luis Carlos Lerma Martínez
Born
21 July 1962
Birthplace
Delicias

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Holy Spirit stands in Ciudad Guerrero, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

In Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, the Diocese of Nuevo Laredo (Latin: Dioecesis Novolaredensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey. Across its 7,484 Square Miles (19,378 square kilometers) it serves 980,000 inhabitants, 86 percent of them Catholic.

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