Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa

Roman Catholic diocese in Mexico

Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa Dioecesis Chilpancingensis-Chilapensis Diócesis de Chilpancingo-Chilapa

Catedral de la Ascunsión
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Acapulco
Metropolitan	Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero
Statistics
Area	7,713 sq mi (19,980 km²)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2007) 923,000 845,000 (91.5%)
Parishes	78
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	16 March 1863 (161 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption
Co-cathedral	Co-Cathedral of the Assumption
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	José de Jesús González Hernández
Bishops emeritus	Alejo Zavala Castro Salvador Rangel Mendoza
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chilpancingo–Chilapa (Latin: Dioecesis Chilpancingensis–Chilapensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Acapulco.

History

The former Diocese of Chilapa in southern Mexico comprised the State of Guerrero. It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mexico, and existed under that name from 1863 to 1989.

The early bishops were Ambrosia Serrano, Ramon Ibarra, and Homobono Anaya.^[1]

John Ssenyondo, a priest in Chilapa, also served under the dictatorship of Idi Amin in his native Uganda. He has been called "The Indiana Jones of the Faith." He was kidnapped and found dead near the town of Ocotlán in 2014.^[2]

Bishops

Ordinaries

Ambrosia María Serrano y Rodriguez (1863-1875)
Tomás Barón y Morales (1876-1882), appointed Bishop of León, Guanajuato
Buenaventura del Purísimo Corazón de María Portillo y Tejeda (1882-1889), appointed Bishop of Zacatecas
José Ramón Ibarra y González (1889-1902), appointed Bishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles)
José Homobono Anaya y Gutiérrez (1902-1906)
Francisco Maria Campos y Angeles (1907-1923)
José Guadalupe Ortíz y López (1923-1926), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León
Leopoldo Díaz y Escudero (1929-1955)
Alfonso Tóriz Cobián (1956-1958), appointed Bishop of Querétaro
Fidel Cortés Pérez (1958-1982)
José María Hernández González (1983-1989), appointed Bishop of Netzahualcóyotl
frén Ramos Salazar (1990-2005)
Alejo Zavala Castro (2005-2015)
Salvador Rangel Mendoza (2015-2022)
José de Jesús González Hernández (2022-present)

Coadjutor bishop

Alfonso Tóriz Cobián (1954-1956)

External links and references

"Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-02.
"Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa". Página Oficial. Archived from the original on 2010-07-06.

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^ Montes de Oca y Obregón, J. (1908). "Diocese of Chilapa" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3.
^ Sipse, Redacción (2014-12-22). "El cura ugandés que tenía una cita con una bala... y fue en Guerrero". sipse.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-08.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Montes de Oca y Obregón, J. (1908). "Diocese of Chilapa". Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3.