The Territorial Prelature of Mixes ( la, Praelatura Territorialis Mixepolitanus) is a

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missionary territory or

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of the

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. It is a suffragan in the

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of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera. The prelature is named for the city of San Juan Juquila Mixes and the

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, with the episcopal see of Ayutla.

History

The Territorial Prelature of Mixes was erected on 21 December 1964. The present ordinary, Salvador Cleofás Murguía Villalobos, is a Salesian of Don Bosco from the Mexico-Guadalajara (MEG) province. After his term as provincial, he was appointed to the Central Department of Formation of the Salesians of Don Bosco, in

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. In 2018 he was nominated to succeed Msgr. Héctor Guerrero Córdova as the bishop of the Mixes Prelature.

Ordinaries

* Braulio Sánchez Fuentes, S.D.B. (1970 - 2000) * Luis Felipe Gallardo Martín del Campo, S.D.B. (2000 - 2006), appointed Bishop of Veracruz * Héctor Guerrero Córdova, S.D.B. (2007 - 2018) *Salvador Cleofás Murguía S.D.B. (2018–Present)

References

Mixes Territorial prelatures Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Antequera, Oaxaca 1964 establishments in Mexico {{Mexico-RC-diocese-stub