Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Ciudad_Obregón

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón

Roman Catholic diocese in Mexico

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis) (erected 20 June 1959). It is centered in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo. Along with the Archdiocese of Chihuahua and the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez, it yielded territory in 1966 to form the Territorial Prelature of Madera.

Quick Facts Diocese of Ciudad ObregónDioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis Diócesis de Ciudad Obregón, Location ...

Bishops

Ordinaries

  • José de la Soledad Torres y Castañeda (28 November 1959 – 4 March 1967)
  • Miguel González Ibarra (15 July 1967 – 14 November 1981)
  • Luis Reynoso Cervantes (15 July 1982 – 17 August 1987), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos
  • Vicente García Bernal (30 March 1988 – 8 November 2005)
  • Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez (8 November 2005 – 18 June 2009), appointed Bishop of Texcoco
  • Felipe Padilla Cardona (1 October 2009 – 15 September 2020)
  • Rutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini (15 September 2020 — present)[1]

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

  • Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, appointed Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California in 2007

Episcopal See

References

  1. [1]
    Zambrano, Jaime (September 15, 2020). "Nombra el Papa a obispo auxiliar de Puebla como obispo de Ciudad Obregón". www.msn.com (in Spanish). Milenio. Retrieved Sep 15, 2020.

27.4988°N 109.9301°W / 27.4988; -109.9301



Stub icon

This article on a Roman Catholic diocese in Mexico is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Ciudad_Obregón, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.