Roman Catholic Archdiocese of León
Archdiocese of León Archidioecesis Leonensis Arquidiócesis de León | |
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Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Light | |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Archbishop | Alfonso Cortés Contreras |
| Bishops emeritus | José Martín Rábago Juan Frausto Pallares |
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| Website | |
| arquileon.org | |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of León (
states of Guanajuato and Querétaro. It was created as the Diocese of León on January 26, 1863 by Pope Pius IX, and elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI on November 25, 2006, with the suffragan sees of Celaya, Irapuato, and Querétaro
.
The archdiocese's
Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Luz
.
Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey by Pope Benedict; he was ordained a bishop on August 24. On July 10, 2009, he was appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, taking canonical possession of the diocese on August 18.[1]
Boundaries
The Archdiocese of León is the metropolitan see of the suffragan dioceses of Irapuato, Celaya, Querétaro.
The Archdiocese of León covers the municipalities of León, Guanajuato, San Felipe, Ocampo, San Francisco del Rincón, Purísima del Rincón, Romita, Silao and Cd. Manuel Doblado.
The
Diocese of Irapuato includes the municipalities of Abasolo, Cuerámaro, Huanímaro, Irapuato, Jaral del Progreso, Pénjamo, Pueblo Nuevo, Salamanca
, and Valle de Santiago.
The
Diocese of Celaya covers 11 municipalities: San Diego de la Unión, Dolores Hidalgo, San Luis de la Paz, San Miguel de Allende, Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas, Comonfort, Villagrán, Celaya
, Apaseo el Grande, Cortazar, and Apaseo el Alto.
The
Diocese of Querétaro covers 18 municipalities of the State of Querétaro
and 7 municipalities of Guanajuato: Atarjea, Docto Mora, San José Iturbide, Santa Catarina, Tierra Blanca, Victoria, and Xichú.
Bishops
List of Ordinaries of León
- José de Sollano y Dávaols (1863–1881)
- Tomás Barón y Morales (1882–1898)
- Santiago Garza Zambrano (1898–1900), appointed Archbishop of Linares o Nueva León, Nuevo León
- Leopoldo Ruiz y Flóres (1900–1907), appointed Archbishop of Linares o Nueva León, Nuevo León
- José Mora y del Rio (1907–1908), appointed Archbishop of México, Federal District
- Emeterio Valverde y Télles (1909–1948)
- Manuel Martín del Campo Padilla (1948–1965), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán
- Anselmo Zarza Bernal (1966–1992)
- Rafael Garcia González (1992–1994)
- José Martín Rábago (1995–2012)
- Alfonso Cortés Contreras (2012–present)
Coadjutor bishop
- Manuel Martín del Campo Padilla (1946–1948)
Auxiliary bishop
- Juan Frausto Pallares (2005–2016)
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Andrés Segura y Domínguez, appointed Bishop of Tepic, Nayarit in 1906
- Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez, appointed Bishop of Tulancingo, Hidalgo in 1937; future Cardinal
- José Ulises Macías Salcedo, appointed Bishop of Mexicali, Baja California Norte in 1984
- Gonzalo Galván Castillo, appointed Bishop of Autlán, Jalisco in 2004
- José Guadalupe Torres Campos (priest here, 1984–2004), appointed auxiliary bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in 2005
- Armando António Ortíz Aguirre, appointed Bishop of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán in 2013
- Francisco González Ramos (priest here, 1982–2004), appointed Bishop of Izcalli, México in 2014
See also
- List of Roman Catholic archdioceses in México
Notes
External links
- Archdiocese of León website Archived 2008-09-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Catholic-Hierarchy
- GCatholic.org