The Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí ( la, Archidioecesis Sancti Ludovici Potosiensis) is a
Latin Church
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ecclesiastical jurisdiction or
archdiocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
of the
Catholic Church
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in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...
. A
metropolitan see
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, its
ecclesiastical province
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contains three
suffragan dioceses:
Ciudad Valles,
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 northe ...
and
Zacatecas
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. The
cathedra
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is found within the
Cathedral of St. Louis the King in the
episcopal see
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of
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
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Pedro Barajas y Moreno (1854–1868)
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Manuel del Conde y Blanco (1869–1872)
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José Nicanor Corona e Izarraraz (1873–1883)
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Jose Maria Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregón (1884–1921)
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Miguel María de la Mora y Mora (1922–1930)
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Guillermo Tritschler y Córdova (1931–1941), appointed Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León
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Gerardo Anaya y Diez de Bonilla (1941–1958)
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Luis Cabrera Cruz (1958–1967)
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Estanislao Alcaraz y Figueroa (1968–1972), appointed Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán
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Ezequiel Perea Sánchez (1972–1986)
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Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez (1987–1999)
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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
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Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero (2012–2022) – Archbishop emeritus
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Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe (2022–present)
;Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
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José Luis Dibildox Martínez, appointed Bishop of Tarahumara, Chihuahua in 1993
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Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Texcoco, México in 2001
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Lucas Martínez Lara, appointed Bishop of Matehuala, San Luís Potosí in 2006
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Andrés Vargas Peña, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District in 2010
See also
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List of Roman Catholic archdioceses in México
The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico comprises eighteen ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces in turn comprise 18 archdioceses, 69 dioceses, and 5 territorial prelatures and each headed by a bishop (of some kind).
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References
External links and references
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Roman Catholic dioceses in Mexico
Roman Catholic ecclesiastical provinces in Mexico
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Religious organizations established in 1854
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century
1854 establishments in Mexico