Diocese of Tuxtepec
Tuxtepecen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Acatlán de Pérez Figueroa, Oaxaca, Mexico
The Diocese of Tuxtepec is a Latin Catholic diocese in Oaxaca, Mexico, erected in 1979, with its cathedral dedicated to St. John the Baptist. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca, and following the 2026 transfer of its previous bishop is administered by Apostolic Administrator Guadalupe Antonio Ruíz Urquín.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 January 1979
- Latin
- Tuxtepecen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000025
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 660,000
- Priests
- 58
- Catholics per priest
- 11,379
- Extent
- 6,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 110
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 San Juan Bautista stands in Acatlán de Pérez Figueroa, 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 Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
With its episcopal see at San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, the Diocese of Tuxtepec (Latin: Dioecesis Tuxtepecensis) is a Latin Church territory of the Catholic Church in Mexico, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Bonfil 597 entre Francisco Villa y Juárez, 68320 Tuxtepec, Oax., México
- Telephone
- [287]875-48-61
- [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].