The Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí ( la, Archidioecesis Sancti Ludovici Potosiensis) is a

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ecclesiastical jurisdiction or

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of the

Catholic Church 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 ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. A

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, its

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contains three suffragan dioceses:

Ciudad Valles Ciudad Valles is the second-largest city in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. It is located in the eastern part of the state (), in the cultural region of Huasteca. The city is also the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of the sa ...

Matehuala Matehuala is the second most important city in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. It is located at around , at an elevation of about 1,500 m. Matehuala is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name, located in the norther ...

and

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. The

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is found within the Cathedral of St. Louis the King in the

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San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí), is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and i ...

Bishops

* 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 Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. *Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galilean ...

(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 Cucunuchi ( – 1838), baptized as Estanislao, was an indigenous '' alcalde'' of Mission San José and a member and leader of the Lakisamni tribe of the Yokuts people of northern California. He is famous for leading bands of armed Native Ameri ...

(1968–1972), appointed Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán * Ezequiel Perea Sánchez (1972–1986) *

Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez (17 January 1922 – 29 May 2018) was a Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Szymanski was born in Tampico and ordained a priest on 22 March 1947. Szymanski was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the Roman ...

(1987–1999) *

Luis Morales Reyes Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

(1999–2012) – Archbishop emeritus * Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero (2012–2022) – Archbishop emeritus *

Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe Jorge is a Spanish Language, Spanish and Portuguese Language, Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth ...

(2022–present) ;Other priests of this diocese who became bishops *

José Luis Dibildox Martínez José Luis Dibildox Martín (20 July 1943 – 31 August 2018) was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop. Dibildox Martín was born in Mexico and was ordained to the priesthood in 1968. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarahumara, ...

, appointed Bishop of Tarahumara, Chihuahua in 1993 *

Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish language, Spanish and Manx language, Manx versions of ''John (given name), John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronoun ...

, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Texcoco, México in 2001 *

Lucas Martínez Lara Lucas Martínez Lara (13 March 1946 – 9 April 2016) was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1968, Martinez Lara was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Matehuala, Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), ...

, appointed Bishop of Matehuala, San Luís Potosí in 2006 *

Andrés Vargas Peña Andres or Andrés may refer to: *Andres, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Will County, Illinois, US *Andres, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in Pas-de-Calais, France *Andres (name) *Hurricane Andres * "Andres" (song), a 1994 song by L7 See also ...

, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District in 2010

References

External links and references

* {{DEFAULTSORT:San Luis Potosi Roman Catholic dioceses in Mexico Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in Mexico A Religious organizations established in 1854 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century 1854 establishments in Mexico