The

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...

Diocese of Ciudad Obregón ( la, Dioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis) (erected 20 June 1959). It is centered in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. It is a suffragan diocese of the

Archdiocese of Hermosillo The Archdiocese of Hermosillo ( la, Archidioecesis Hermosillensis) is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese located in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Its area is 90,959 sq. miles, and its population (2004) 1,067,051. The bishop resides at Hermosillo. The A ...

. Along with the

Archdiocese of Chihuahua The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua
( la, Archidioecesis Chihuahuensis) is a

Diocese of Ciudad Juárez, it yielded territory in 1966 to form the

Territorial Prelature of Madera A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or an ...

Bishops

Ordinaries

* José de la Soledad Torres y Castañeda (28 November 1959 – 4 March 1967) * Miguel González Ibarra (15 July 1967 – 14 November 1981) *

Luis Reynoso Cervantes 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 ...

(15 July 1982 – 17 August 1987), appointed Bishop of

Cuernavaca Cuernavaca (; nci-IPA, Cuauhnāhuac, kʷawˈnaːwak "near the woods", ) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. The city is located around a 90-minute drive south of Mexico City using the Federal Highway 95D. The na ...

, Morelos * Vicente García Bernal (30 March 1988 – 8 November 2005) * Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez (8 November 2005 – 18 June 2009), appointed Bishop of Texcoco *

Felipe Padilla Cardona Felipe is the Spanish variant of the name Philip, which derives from the Greek adjective ''Philippos'' "friend of horses". Felipe is also widely used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil alongside Filipe, the form commonly used in Portugal. Noteworthy pe ...

(1 October 2009 – 15 September 2020) * Rutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini (15 September 2020 — present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

* Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, appointed Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California in 2007

Episcopal See

Ciudad Obregón, Sonora Ciudad () is the Spanish word for City Ciudad may also refer to: *La Ciudad (archaeological site), Hohokam ruins in Phoenix, Arizona *La Ciudad, district of Durango City, Mexico *''La ciudad'', novel by Mario Levrero 1970 *La Ciudad ''The City'' ...

References

External links

* Ciudad Obregon Christian organizations established in 1959 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century Ciudad Obregón, Roman Catholic Diocese of {{Mexico-RC-diocese-stub