The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tulancingo ( la, Archidioecesis Tulancingensis) is an

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of the

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of the

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. The Archdiocese comprises the province of

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, and the archiepiscopal see is located in the

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city of

Tulancingo Tulancingo (officially Tulancingo de Bravo; Otomi language, Otomi: Ngu̱hmu) is the second-largest city in the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo. It is located in the southeastern part of the state and also forms ...

As a

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, it is responsible for the suffragan dioceses of

Huejutla Huejutla de Reyes is a city and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The name comes from the Nahuatl ''huexotl'' ("willow") and ''tlan'' ("place"), while "de Reyes" commemorates local cobbler Antonio Reyes Cabrera who ...

and

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. It was elevated as

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on November 25, 2005. The current archbishop is Domingo Díaz Martínez, who was appointed in 2008.

Bishops

Ordinaries

* Juan Bautista de Ormeachea y Ernáez (1863–1884) * Agustín de Jesús Torres y Hernandez, C.M. (1885–1889) * José María Armas y Rosales (1891–1898) *

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(1898–1902) * José Mora y del Rio (1901–1907) * José Juan de Jésus Herrera y Piña (1907–1921) * Vicente Castellanos y Núñez (1921–1932) *

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(1933–1937) *

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(1937–1955) *

Adalberto Almeida y Merino Adalberto Almeida y Merino ( Bachíniva, Chihuahua, June 6, 1916 – Chihuahua, Chihuahua, June 21, 2008) was a Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Tulancingo, 1956–1962; Bishop of Zacatecas, 1962–1969 and ...

(1956–1962) *

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(1962–1974) *

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(1975–2008) *

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(since 2008)

Auxiliary bishop

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, S.J. (1926–1933)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

José Fernández Arteaga José Fernández Arteaga (12 September 1933 – 17 December 2021) was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church who served as archbishop of Chihuahua. He previously served as the bishop of Apatzingán from 1974 to 1980 and Colima Colima () ...

, appointed Bishop of Apatzingán, Michoacán in 1974

Hidalgo (state) Tulancingo, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of A

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