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 lette ...

Diocese of Tarahumara ( la, Dioecesis Tarahumarensis) is a suffragan diocese of the

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

mission sui juris A mission ''sui iuris'', or in Latin ''missio sui iuris'' (plural ''missions sui iuris''); also spelled mission(s) sui juris), also known as an independent mission, is a rare type of Roman Catholic missionary pseudo-diocesan jurisdiction, rankin ...

in 1950 and was elevated, first to a vicariate apostolic in 1958, then to a diocese in 1993.

Ordinaries

* Salvador Martinez Aguirre, S.J. (1958–1973) * José Alberto Llaguno Farias, S.J. (1975–1992) * José Luis Dibildox Martínez (1993–2003) * Rafael Sandoval Sandoval, M.N.M. (2005– )

Episcopal see

Guachochi Guachochi is a city in the south-western portion of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The city of Guachochi serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. As of 2010, the city of Guachochi had a population of 14,5 ...

, Chihuahua

External links and references

* Tarahumara Tarahumara, Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarahumara Tarahumara {{Mexico-RC-diocese-stub