Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí
Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí Archidioecesis Sancti Ludovici Potosiensis Arquidiócesis de San Luis Potosí | |
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Location | |
Country | Mexico |
Ecclesiastical province | San Luis Potosí |
Statistics | |
Area | 7,504 sq mi (19,440 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 1,925,000 1,845,000 (95.8%) |
Parishes | 107 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 31 August 1854 (170 years ago) |
Cathedral | Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Louis the King |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe |
Bishops emeritus | Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero |
Map | |
Website | |
www.iglesiapotosina.org |
The Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Ludovici Potosiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. A metropolitan see, its ecclesiastical province contains three suffragan dioceses: Ciudad Valles, Matehuala and Zacatecas. The cathedra is found within the Cathedral of St. Louis the King in the episcopal see of San Luis Potosí.
Bishops
[edit]- Pedro Barajas y Moreno (1854–1868)
- Manuel del Conde y Blanco (1869–1872)
- José Nicanor Corona e Izarraraz (1873–1883)
- Jose Maria Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregón (1884–1921)
- Miguel María de la Mora y Mora (1922–1930)
- Guillermo Tritschler y Córdova (1931–1941), appointed Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León
- Gerardo Anaya y Diez de Bonilla (1941–1958)
- Luis Cabrera Cruz (1958–1967)
- Estanislao Alcaraz y Figueroa (1968–1972), appointed Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán
- Ezequiel Perea Sánchez (1972–1986)
- Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez (1987–1999)
- Luis Morales Reyes (1999–2012) – Archbishop emeritus
- Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero (2012–2022) – Archbishop emeritus
- Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe (2022–present)
- Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- José Luis Dibildox Martínez, appointed Bishop of Tarahumara, Chihuahua in 1993
- Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Texcoco, México in 2001
- Lucas Martínez Lara, appointed Bishop of Matehuala, San Luís Potosí in 2006
- Andrés Vargas Peña, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District in 2010
See also
[edit]References
[edit]External links and references
[edit]- "Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí". Catholic-Hierarchy.