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Latin diocese in the

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of the Metropolitan

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in western

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. Its

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episcopal see is the Catedral de la Purísima Concepción, dedicated to the

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, capital of

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state. It also has a

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Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,168,480 Catholics (88.1% of 1,325,985 total) on 22,777 km² in 92 parishes and 36 missions with 214 priests (207 diocesan, 7 religious), 205 lay religious (11 brothers, 194 sisters) and 54 seminarians.

History

It was erected 23 June 1891 as Diocese of Tepic / Tepicen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the

Bishops

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Episcopal ordinaries

;''Suffragan Bishops of Tepic'' # Ignacio Díaz y Macedo (1893.01.19 – death 1905.06.14) # Andrés Segura y Domínguez (1906.08.06 – death 1918.08.13) #

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(1919.08.10 – death 1935.03.01) # Anastasio Hurtado y Robles (1935.12.21 – retired 1970.07.13), emeritate as

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of Cissa (1970.07.13 – resigned 1970.12.31); died 1972 ## Auxiliary Bishop: José Manuel Piña Torres (1958.05.12 – retired 1970.05.16), Titular Bishop of

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(1971.05.14 – 1980.05.08), next Bishop of

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(Mexico) (1994.11.03 – retired 1995.12), created

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(2008.02.21 – death 2011.11.01),

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(M.Sp.S.), previously Titular Bishop of

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(1980.05.27 – 1989.11.06) as Auxiliary Bishop of México (City) (Mexico) (1980.05.27 – 1989.11.06), Bishop of

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(30 March 2012 – ...), previously Bishop of

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(Mexico) (2003.07.08 – 2012.03.30).

Auxiliary bishop

* José Manuel Piña Torres (1958-1970)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

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, appointed Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla in 1996 *

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, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District in 2009

References

Sources and external links

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Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century 1891 establishments in Mexico