Roman Catholic Diocese of Huajuapan de León

Diocese of Huajuapan de León Dioecesis Huaiuapanensis Diócesis de Huajuapan de León
Catedral de la Virgen de Guadalupe
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Puebla de los Ángeles
Statistics
Area	10,042 sq mi (26,010 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 760,000 720.000 (94.7%)
Parishes	71
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	25 April 1902 (122 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Virgin of Guadalupe
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Miguel Ángel Castro Muñoz
Metropolitan Archbishop	Victor Sánchez Espinosa
Map
Website
arquidiocesisdepuebla.mx

The Diocese of Huajuapan de León (Latin: Dioecesis Huaiuapanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Puebla de los Ángeles. It was erected on 25 April 1902 as the "Diocese of Mixtecas" and renamed on 13 November 1903. It cathedra is found within the Catedral de la Virgen de Guadalupe in the episcopal see of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Rafael Amador y Hernández (1903 -1923)
• Luis María Altamirano y Bulnes (1923 -1933), appointed Bishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo
• Jenaro Méndez del Río (1933 -1952)
• Celestino Fernández y Fernández (1952 -1967)
• José López Lara (1967 -1981), appointed Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco
• José de Jesús Aguilera Rodriguez (1982 -1991)
• Felipe Padilla Cardona (1992 -1996), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
• Teodoro Enrique Pino Miranda (2000 - 2020)
• Miguel Ángel Castro Muñoz (2021 - )

Auxiliary bishop

• Celestino Fernández y Fernández (1948-1952), appointed bishop here

External links and references

• "Diocese of Huajuapan de León". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-08.