The Diocese of Zamora ( la, Dioecesis Zamorensis in Mexico) is a

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of the

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. The diocese is a suffragan in the

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of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Morelia. It was erected on 26 January 1863. It has two co-cathedrals in the episcopal see of

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: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Mary and Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Bishops

Ordinaries

* José Antonio de la Peña y Navarro (1863-1877) * José María Cázares y Martínez (1878-1908) * José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán (1908-1909) * José Othón Núñez y Zárate (1909-1922), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca * Manuel Fulcheri y Pietrasanta (1922-1946) * José Gabriel Anaya y Diez de Bonilla (1947-1967) *

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(1967-1970), appointed Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco (Cardinal in 1973) * Adolfo Hernández Hurtado (1970-1974) *

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(1974-1993) * Carlos Suárez Cázares (1994-2006) * Javier Navarro Rodríguez (2007–Present)

Coadjutor bishop

* José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán (1899-1908) *

(1961-1967); later made cardinal

Auxiliary bishop

* Jaime Calderón Calderón (2012-2018), appointed Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

* Vicente Castellanos y Núñez, appointed Bishop of Campeche in 1912 * Antonio Guízar y Valencia, appointed Bishop of Chihuahua in 1920 * José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra, appointed Bishop of Tula, Hidalgo in 1961 * José de Jesús Garcia Ayala, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Campeche in 1963 * José Luis Amezcua Melgoza, appointed Bishop of Campeche in 1995 * José Armando Álvarez Cano, appointed Prelate of Huautla, Oaxaca in 2011 *

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, appointed Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California Norte in 2013

Institutions for Catholic Education

* Seminary of Zamora * Institute Cázares

Saints, beati, and servants of God of the Diocese of Zamora in Mexico

* Rafael Guízar y Valencia (1878-1938) * José Ma. Cázares y Martínez (1832-1909) * José Sánchez del Río (1913-1928)

Territorial losses

Episcopal See

External links and references

Diócesis de Zamora
''official site (in Spanish)'' * Santuario guadalupano de Zamora

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