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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez ( la, Dioecesis Civitatis Iuarezensis) is located in the northern Mexican city of the same name, across the Río Grande from
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of Chihuahua and is a
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of the
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History

The Diocese of Ciudad Juárez was erected by Pope Pius XII

on 10 April 1957 from the Diocese of Chihuahua because of the population growth in the northern part of the state of Chihuahua. Pope Pius named Manuel Talamás Camandar

as the first bishop, and by 1966 he was overseeing a diocese of 565,000 faithful. When Bishop Talamás retired in 1992, the diocese consisted of more than one million Catholics. Juan Sandoval Íñiguez

was selected by
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to succeed Talamás as second bishop on 11 July 1992, but remained for less than two years before being transferred to
Guadalajara Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the list of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 7th largest city by population in Me ...
to replace the assassinated archbishop, Cardinal
Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (11 November 1926 – 24 May 1993) was an Archbishop of the Catholic Church in Mexico who served as the eighth archbishop of the see of Guadalajara and as a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Posadas Ocampo was ...
on 21 April 1994. His successor was Renato Ascencio Leó

who had been subsequently the bishop of the neighboring Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera, Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera, Chihuahua. Bishop Ascencio was installed on 7 October 1994, and administers a diocese with a Catholic population(2006) of 2,179,000.


Demographics

According to the Church census of 2016, the diocese is also made up of 116 priests, 73 parishes, 170 female and male religious, and covers 29,639 square kilometers(11,448 square miles). There are 9,414 faithful for each priest.


Bishops


Ordinaries

* Manuel Talamás Camandari † (21 May 1957 Appointed - 11 Jul 1992 Retired, Died 10 May 2005) *
Juan Sandoval Íñiguez Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (; born 28 March 1933 in Yahualica de González Gallo, Jalisco, Mexico) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and served as Archbishop of Guadalajara. Ecclesiastical career He is a son of Esteban Sandoval Ruiz an ...
(11 Jul 1992 Succeeded - 21 Apr 1994 Appointed, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco); elevated to Cardinal in 1994 *
Renato Ascencio León Renato Ascencio León (11 May 1939 – 27 June 2022) was a Mexican 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 ...
† (7 Oct 1994 Appointed - 20 Dec 2014 Retired, Died 27 Jun 2022) *
José Guadalupe Torres Campos 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 vernacul ...
(20 Dec 2014 Appointed - ) †-deceased


Coadjutor bishop

*
Juan Sandoval Íñiguez Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (; born 28 March 1933 in Yahualica de González Gallo, Jalisco, Mexico) is a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and served as Archbishop of Guadalajara. Ecclesiastical career He is a son of Esteban Sandoval Ruiz an ...
(1988-1992)


Auxiliary bishop

*
José Guadalupe Torres Campos 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 vernacul ...
(2005-2008, appointed Bishop here


Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

* Gerardo de Jesús Rojas López, appointed Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua in 2004


References

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