Diocese of Saltillo Dioecesis Saltillensis Diócesis de Saltillo

Catedral de Santiago
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Monterrey
Statistics
Area	21,864 sq mi (56,630 km²)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 546,576 524,987 (96.1%)
Parishes	60
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	23 June 1891 (132 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. James
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Hilario González García
Metropolitan Archbishop	Rogelio Cabrera López
Bishops emeritus	José Raúl Vera López, O.P.
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Website
www.diocesisdesaltillo.org.mx

The Diocese of Saltillo (Latin: Dioecesis Saltillensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. The diocese was erected on 23 June 1891. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey.

History

The Franciscan priest Andres de Leon was one of the first missionaries in this territory in the sixteenth century. In 1827 the name of Saltillo was changed to Ciudad Leona Vicario, in honor of the Mexican heroine of that name, but the original name always prevailed. The Franciscans of the Province of Jalisco had eight missions in Coahuila, which, in 1777, formed part of the See of Linares, or Monterey, and belonged to it until 1891, when Pope Leo XIII erected the See of Saltillo with jurisdiction over the entire State of Coahuila.^[1]

According to the Catholic News Agency (CNA), Vera Lopez, the bishop of Saltillo, Mexico, will meet with Marc Ouellet, the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops in the Vatican's Roman Curia, "to discuss Bishop Vera's support for the San Elredo Community, an organization that embraces homosexuality." The San Elredo Community has become a separate organization apart from the Diocese of Saltillo.^[2]

Bishops

Ordinaries

Santiago de los Santos Garza Zambrano (1893–1898), appointed the bishop of León, Guanajuato
José María de Jesús Portugal y Serratos (1898–1902), appointed the bishop of Aguascalientes
Jesús María Echavarría y Aguirre (1904–1954)
Luis Guízar y Barragán (1954–1975)
Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla (1975–1999)
José Raúl Vera López, the bishop emeritus^[3]
Hilario González García (2020–present)

Coadjutor bishop

Luis Guízar y Barragán (1938–1954)

Auxiliary bishops

Manuel Samaniego Barriga (1969–1971), appointed the bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero
Francisco Raúl Villalobos Padilla (1971–1975), appointed a bishop here

Territorial losses

Date	Reason
19 June 1957	to form the Diocese of Torreón
8 January 2003	to form the Diocese of Piedras Negras

Episcopal See

Saltillo, Coahuila

External links and references

"Diocese of Saltillo". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-07.

^ Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Diocese of Saltillo
^ Vatican to examine Mexican bishop's gay ministry
^ Ramos, Leopoldo (January 30, 2021). "La Jornada - Raúl Vera se despide de la diócesis de Saltillo". jornada.com.mx (in Spanish). La Jornada. Retrieved January 30, 2021.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Saltillo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.