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Diocese of Aguascalientes ( la, Dioecesis de Aguas Calientes) (erected 27 August 1899) is a suffragan diocese of the

Archdiocese of Guadalajara The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara ( la, Archidioecesis Guadalaiarensis) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese based in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It currently covers an area of 20,827 km² (8,044 Square Miles). The di ...

Bishops

Ordinaries

José María de Jesús Portugal y Serratos José María de Jesús Portugal y Serratos (born 1838 in Mexico City) was a Mexican clergyman and prelate for Sinaloa Sinaloa (), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa), is one of the 31 st ...

, O.F.M. (1902 -1912) * Ignacio Valdespino y Díaz (1913 -1928) * José de Jesús López y Gonzalez (1929 -1950) * Salvador Quezada Limón (1951 -1984) * Rafael Muñoz Nuñez (1984 -1998) - Bishop Emeritus * Ramón Godinez Flores (1998 - 2007) * José María de la Torre Martín (2008 - 2020) *Juan Espinoza Jiménez (2022- )

Coadjutor bishop

* Alfredo Torres Romero (1975-1976); did not succeed to see; appointed Bishop of Toluca, México in 1980

Auxiliary bishops

* José de Jesús López y González (1927-1929), appointed Bishop here *

Ricardo Guízar Díaz Ricardo Guízar Díaz (February 24, 1933 – December 4, 2015) was a Roman Catholic prelate. He served as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Atlacomulco from 1984 to 1996 and the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tlalnepan ...

(1977-1984), appointed Bishop of Atlacomulco, México

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

* Juan María Navarrete y Guerrero, appointed Bishop of Sonora in 1919 * Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán, appointed Bishop of Tijuana, Baja California Norte in 1983

Episcopal See

Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes (''Virtue in the Water, Fidelity in the Heart'') , image_skyline = AGUASCALIENTES CITY.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = Clockwise from top: San Antonio de Padua Church, La Exedra (main square), Aguascal ...

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Aguascalientes Aguascalientes (; ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. At 22°N and ...

Aguascalientes, Roman Catholic Diocese of

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