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Diocese Of Chilapa
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilpancingo–Chilapa ( la, Dioecesis Chilpancingensis–Chilapensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Acapulco. History The former Diocese of Chilapa in southern Mexico comprised the State of Guerrero. It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mexico, and existed under that name from 1863 to 1989. The early bishops were Ambrosia Serrano, Ramon Ibarra, and Homobono Anaya. Father John Ssenyondo, a priest in Chilapa, also served under the dictatorship of Idi Amin in his native Uganda. He has been called "The Indiana Jones of the Faith." He was kidnapped and found dead near the town of Ocotlán in 2014. Bishops Ordinaries * Ambrosia María Serrano y Rodriguez (1863-1875) * Tomás Barón y Morales (1876-1882), appointed Bishop of León, Guanajuato *Buenaventura del Purísimo Corazón de María Portillo y Tejeda, O.F.M. Obs. (1882-1889), appointed Bishop of Zacatecas * José Ramón Ibarra y González (1889-1902), appointed Bishop of Tlaxc ...
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Chilpancingo
Chilpancingo de los Bravo (commonly shortened to Chilpancingo; ; Nahuatl: Chilpantsinko) is the capital and second-largest city of the state of Guerrero, Mexico. In 2010 it had a population of 187,251 people. The municipality has an area of in the south-central part of the state, situated in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains, on the bank of the ''Huacapa River''. The city is on Mexican Federal Highway 95 which connects Acapulco to Mexico City. It is served by Chilpancingo National Airport, which is one of the five airports in the state. History In pre-Columbian times, the area was occupied by the Olmecs, who built an extensive tunnel network through the mountains, and left the cave paintings in the caverns of Juxtlahuaca. The city of Chilpancingo was founded on November 1, 1591, by the Spanish conquistadores, its name meaning “Place of Wasps” in Nahuatl. During the War of Independence, Chilpancingo was crucial to the insurgent cause as its population participated actively ...
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Buenaventura Del Purísimo Corazón De María Portillo Y Tejeda
Buenaventura (Spanish, 'good fortune', and the name of Saint Bonaventure) or Buena Ventura may refer to: People * Buenaventura Báez (1812-1884), president of the Dominican Republic for five terms * Buenaventura Bagaria (1882–1947), a Spanish sports shooter *Buenaventura Carlos Aribau (1798–1862), a Spanish economist, writer and politician * Buenaventura Cousiño Jorquera (1808–1855), a Chilean politician * Buenaventura de Abarzuza y Ferrer (1843–1910), a Spanish diplomat * Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936), a Spanish anarchist and hero of the Spanish Civil War *Buenaventura Ferreira (born 1960), a Paraguayan footballer *Buenaventura Fernández de Córdoba Spínola (1724–1777), a Spanish aristocrat and priest * Buenaventura García de Paredes (1866–1936), a Dominican priest * Buenaventura Marcó del Pont (1738–1818), a Spanish businessman *Buenaventura S. Medina Jr. (born 1928), a Filipino author *Buenaventura Rodriguez (1893–1940), Filipino playwright and politi ...
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Religious Organizations Established In 1863
Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith,Tillich, P. (1957) ''Dynamics of faith''. Harper Perennial; (p. 1). a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. Religions have ...
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Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province Of Acapulco
As of October 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions ''sui juris'' around the world. In addition to these jurisdictions, there are 2,100 titular sees (bishoprics, archbishoprics and metropolitanates). This is a structural list to show the relationships of each diocese to one another, grouped by ecclesiastical province, within each episcopal conference, within each continent or other geographical area. The list needs regular updating and is incomplete, but as articles are written, more will be added, and various aspects need to be regularly updated. Map Types of Catholic dioceses This refers to Catholic dioceses in the world, of all (Latin o ...
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Roman Catholic Dioceses In Mexico
The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico comprises eighteen ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces in turn comprise 18 archdioceses, 69 dioceses, and 5 territorial prelatures and each headed by a bishop (of some kind). List of Dioceses Ecclesiastical province of Acapulco * Archdiocese of Acapulco ** Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa ** Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano ** Diocese of Tlapa Ecclesiastical province of Antequera, Oaxaca * Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca ** Diocese of Puerto Escondido ** Diocese of Tehuantepec ** Diocese of Tuxtepec ** Prelature of Huautla ** Prelature of Mixes Ecclesiastical province of Chihuahua * Archdiocese of Chihuahua ** Diocese of Ciudad Juárez ** Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera ** Diocese of Nuevo Casas Grandes ** Diocese of Parral ** Diocese of Tarahumara Ecclesiastical province of Durango * Archdiocese of Durango ** Diocese of Mazatlán ** Diocese of Torreón ** Diocese of Gómez Palacio ** P ...
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Chilapa De Álvarez
Chilapa de Álvarez, informally known as Chilapa, is a town located in the Chilapa de Álvarez Municipality under the Mexican state of Guerrero. The town is located approximately 54 kilometers east of the state capital Chilpancingo. Chilapa's first official charter was issued by the Aztec government in the 15th century after the area's conquest by Moctezuma I in 1458. The Spanish officially designated the town ''Chilapa de Santa Maria de Asuncion'' in 1522; in the late 19th century it was renamed ''Chilapa de Álvarez'' in honor of Mexican president Juan Álvarez. Traces of human occupation in the area date to 1200 BC. Chilapa is noted for its large Saturday ''tianguis'', or Aztec market, and its crafts. Local culinary specialities of Chilapa include pozole, chalupas, ''pan de chilapa'' bread, and homemade mezcal. The municipal cathedral has a mechanical figurine of Juan Diego, who appears at a window in the cathedral spire and drops rose petals onto the plaza below. Every Au ...
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José María Hernández González
José Maria Hernández González (January 17, 1927 – January 19, 2015) was a Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ... bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1950, Hernández González was named bishop of the Diocese of Chilapa, Mexico in 1983 and then in 1989 was named bishop of Netzahaulcóyotl. He retired in 2003. Notes 1927 births 2015 deaths 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Mexico 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Mexico {{Mexico-RC-bishop-stub ...
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Fidel Cortés Pérez
Fidel most commonly refers to: * Fidel Castro (1926–2016), Cuban communist revolutionary and politician * Fidel Ramos (1928–2022), Filipino politician and former president Fidel may also refer to: Other persons * Fidel (given name) Film * ''Fidel'' (2002 film), a 2002 mini-series by David Attwood about Castro * ''Fidel'' (2009 film), a 2009 Filipino indie film * '' Fidel: The Untold Story'', a 2001 a documentary about Castro Other uses * Fidel, a writing system used in Ethiopia and Eritrea, see Ge'ez script * Vielle, a musical instrument and forerunner of the fiddle * Fidel (imprint) Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology. The company publis ..., an imprint of VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content See also * Fidèle (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Alfonso Tóriz Cobián
Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the Hispanic and Portuguese royal families. It is derived from a Gothic name, or a conflation of several Gothic names; from ''*Aþalfuns'', composed of the elements '' aþal'' "noble" and ''funs'' "eager, brave, ready", and perhaps influenced by names such as ''*Alafuns'', ''*Adefuns'' and ''* Hildefuns''. It is recorded as ''Adefonsus'' in the 9th and 10th century, and as ''Adelfonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'' in the 10th to 11th. The reduced form ''Alfonso'' is recorded in the late 9th century, and the Portuguese form ''Afonso'' from the early 11th. and ''Anfós'' in Catalan from the 12th Century until the 15th. Variants of the name include: ''Alonso'' (Spanish), ''Alfonso'' (Spani ...
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Leopoldo Díaz Y Escudero
Leopoldo is a given name, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese form of the English, German, Dutch, Polish, and Slovene name, Leopold. Notable people with the name include: *Leopoldo de' Medici (1617–1675), Italian cardinal and Governor of Siena *Leopoldo Andara (born 1986), Venezuelan swimmer * Leopoldo Baracco (1886–1966), Italian politician *Leopoldo Batres (1852–1926), Mexican archaeologist *Leopoldo Bersani (1848–1903), Italian painter * Leopoldo Borda Roldan (1898–1977), Colombian engineer *Leopoldo Brenes, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic cardinal * Leopoldo Burlando (1841–1915), Italian painter *Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (1926–2008), Spanish politician *Leopoldo Conti (1901–1970), Italian footballer *Leopoldo Diokno, Filipino militant * Leopoldo Elia (1925–2008), Italian politician *Leopoldo Felíz Severa, Puerto Rican politician *Leopoldo Fernández (Tres Patines) (1904–1985), Cuban comedian *Leopoldo Figueroa (1887–1969), Puerto Rican politician *Leopoldo Fr ...
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José Guadalupe Ortíz Y López
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of ...
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