The Archdiocese of Hermosillo ( la, Archidioecesis Hermosillensis) is a

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located in Hermosillo,

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. Its area is 90,959 sq. miles, and its population (2004) 1,067,051. The bishop resides at Hermosillo. The Archdiocese of Hermosillo is a Metropolitan Archdiocese. Until 2006, its suffragan dioceses were the dioceses of

Ciudad Obregón Ciudad Obregón is a city in southern Sonora. It is the state's second largest city after Hermosillo and serves as the municipal seat of Cajeme, as of 2020, the city has a population of 436,484. Ciudad Obregón is south of the state's norther ...

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, Mexicali and

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but on November 26, 2006, Tijuana became an

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and Metropolitan while Mexicali and La Paz became

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s of the latter. Currently, the Archdiocese of Hermosillo has three suffragan dioceses:

and Culiacán, and the newly created (in 2015) Nogales. The Diocese of Hermosillo was originally created as the

Diocese of Sonora The Archdiocese of Hermosillo ( la, Archidioecesis Hermosillensis) is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese located in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Its area is 90,959 sq. miles, and its population (2004) 1,067,051. The bishop resides at Hermosillo. The A ...

on May 7, 1779. On September 1, 1959 the name was changed to Diocese of Hermosillo; it was elevated to Archdiocese on July 13, 1963. The Archbishop of Hermosillo is Ruy Rendon Leal. The Archdiocese is headed in

Hermosillo Cathedral Hermosillo Cathedral or the Assumption of Mary, Assumption Cathedral (''locally called "La Catedral" or "La Catedral de la Asunción"'') stands 30 meters tall as the principal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hermosillo and one of the m ...

History

The Gospel was first preached in the territory by the celebrated Father Niza, who accompanied the daring expeditions of the first explorers and conquerors of

. The Spaniards settled at different places in this section; they evangelized the numerous tribes who lived in that region in the beginning of the seventeenth century, after having established the new See of Durango, to which all these lands were given. The

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, who were assigned the task of converting to Christianity the people of these lands, founded the famous missions of Río Yaqui, Río Mayo, and Upper and Lower Pimeria. Notable among these priests was the celebrated

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. When the Jesuits were expelled from all the Spanish colonies (1767) they had the following residences: Mission of the Upper and Lower Pimeria (Guazaves, Aconche, Mátape, , Movas, S. Ignacio, Arizpe, Aribechi, Batuco, Onavas, Cucurupe, Cumuripa, Saguaripa, Sta Maria Soanca, Tubutama, Odope, Saric, Tecoripa, Ures, Caborca, Babispe, Baca de Guachi, Cuquiarachi, Onapa, Banamichi); S. Javier del Bac, Santa Maria Basoraca, and Guebabi, which were then in the territory now belonging to the United States; Mission del Rio Yaqui (Huirivis, Belem, Rahum, Torim, Bacum); Mission del Rio Mayo (Santa Cruz, Caamoa, Nabojoa, Conicari, Batacosa). On 7 May 1779, Pius VI established the Diocese of Sonora to which belonged at that time the present states of Sinaloa and Sonora and the two Californias (Upper and Lower). It was suffragan of the then immense Archdiocese of Mexico. This territory was divided in 1840 when the See of San Francisco de California was founded. In 1863 it ceased to be a suffragan of Mexico and became suffragan of the new metropolitan see established at

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. In 1873 it was separated from Lower California, which became a vicariate Apostolic, and in 1883, when the See of

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was created, the See of

was reduced to its present limits. In 1891 Leo XIII, by the Bull Illud in Primis, separated this See from the ecclesiastical Province of Guadalajara and made it a suffragan of the new Archdiocese of Durango. The bishop's residence was first situated in the city of Arizpe, but owing to the uprising of the Indians it was removed to

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and later to Culiacán, the present capital of the State of

. When the new See of Sinaloa was created the Bishop of Sonora made his residence at Hermosillo. And in June 1959 more territory was lost from the Archdiocese of Hermosillo with the creation of the

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. Further, on Thursday, 19 March 2015,

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took territory from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hermosillo to erect the new suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nogales, naming Auxiliary Bishop José Leopoldo González González of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, in Guadalajara, Mexico, as the first Bishop.

Bishops

Bishops of Diocese of Sonora and of Diocese/Archdiocese of Hermosillo

*Bishop Antonio María de los Reyes Almada, O.F.M. (1780–1787) *Bishop

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, O.F.M. (1788–1794), appointed Bishop of Durango *Bishop J. Damián Martínez de Galinsonga, O.F.M. (1794–1795), appointed Bishop of Tarazona, Spain *Bishop Francisco Rousset de Jesús y Rosas, O.F.M. (1798–1814) *Bishop Bernardo del Espíritu Santo Martínez y Ocejo,

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(1817–1825) *Bishop

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(1832–1834) *Bishop José Lázaro de la Garza y Ballesteros (1837–1850), appointed Archbishop of México, Federal District *Bishop

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(1852–1868), appointed Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco *Bishop Gil Alamán y García Castrillo (1868–1869) *Bishop José de Jesús María Uriarte y Pérez (1869–1883), appointed Bishop of Sinaloa *Bishop Jesús María Rico y Santoyo, O.F.M. (1883–1884) *Bishop

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(1887–1902) *Bishop Ignacio Valdespino y Díaz (1902–1913) *Bishop

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(1919–1968), raised to Archbishop in 1963 *Archbishop

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(1968–1996) *Archbishop José Ulises Macías Salcedo (1996–2016) *Archbishop Ruy Rendon y Leal (2016–)

Coadjutor archbishop

(1966–1968)

Auxiliary bishop

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(1855–1872)

Other priests of the diocese who became bishops

* Teodoro Enrique Pino Miranda, appointed Bishop of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca in 2000 *

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, appointed Bishop of Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 2005

References

External links

Archdiocese of Hermosillo website
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