Archdiocese of Tijuana
Tigiuanaën(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Alemán, Baja California, Mexico
The Archdiocese of Tijuana is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese in Baja California, Mexico, erected as a diocese in 1963 and elevated to archdiocese in 2006. The see has been vacant since the death of Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barrón in 2025, with Bishop Mario Nicolás Villanueva Arellano serving as apostolic administrator.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1963
- Latin
- Tigiuanaën(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Annuario code
- 001003224
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 2,450,000
- Population
- 2,284,000
- Priests
- 279
- Catholics per priest
- 8,781
- Extent
- 24,970 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 98
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
The register holds no ordinary for this see. Where a chair is vacant the vacancy is the fact, and it is recorded rather than filled in. See the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe stands in Alemán, 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 Tijuana
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of EnsenadaBahía de los Ángeles
- Diocese of La Paz en la Baja California SurLa Paz en la Baja California Sur
- Diocese of MexicaliAlberto Oviedo Mota
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Three suffragan dioceses, Ensenada, La Paz en la Baja California Sur, and Mexicali, make up the province headed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tijuana (Latin: Archidioecesis Tigiuanaënsis). This Metropolitan Archdiocese in Mexico is based in the city of Tijuana, Baja California.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].