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Suffragan diocese Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico

Diocese of Piedras Negras

Saxanigren(sis)

Latin Church

Latin rite diocese in Coahuila, Mexico, erected in 2003 from the Diocese of Saltillo. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Monterrey, led by Bishop Alfonso Gerardo Miranda Guardiola since 2024.

On the map

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

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Established
2003
Catholics
440,000
Priests
66
Territory
56,628 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Alfonso Gerardo Miranda Guardiola
Born
6 July 1966
Birthplace
Monterrey

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The cathedral

Catedral Martires de Cristo Rey stands in Acuña, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Erected on 8 January 2003, the Diocese of Piedras Negras (Latin: Dioecesis Saxanigrensis) is a Latin Church territory of the Catholic Church in Mexico, belonging as a suffragan to the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey. Its cathedra stands in the Catedral Mártires de Cristo Rey in the episcopal see of Piedras Negras, Coahuila.