Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí

Archidioecesis Sancti Ludovici Potosiensis

Arquidiócesis de San Luis Potosí
Catedral Metropolitana de San Luis Rey
Location
CountryMexico
Ecclesiastical provinceSan Luis Potosí
Statistics
Area7,504 sq mi (19,440 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2010)
1,925,000
1,845,000 (95.8%)
Parishes107
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established31 August 1854 (169 years ago)
CathedralMetropolitan Cathedral of St. Louis the King
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
ArchbishopJorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe
Bishops emeritusJesús Carlos Cabrero Romero
Luis Morales Reyes
Map
Website
www.iglesiapotosina.org

The Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Ludovici Potosiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. A metropolitan see, its ecclesiastical province contains three suffragan dioceses: Ciudad Valles, Matehuala and Zacatecas. The cathedra is found within the Cathedral of St. Louis the King in the episcopal see of San Luis Potosí.

Bishops

  • Pedro Barajas y Moreno (1854–1868)
  • Manuel del Conde y Blanco (1869–1872)
  • José Nicanor Corona e Izarraraz (1873–1883)
  • Jose Maria Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregón (1884–1921)
  • Miguel María de la Mora y Mora (1922–1930)
  • Guillermo Tritschler y Córdova (1931–1941), appointed Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León
  • Gerardo Anaya y Diez de Bonilla (1941–1958)
  • Luis Cabrera Cruz (1958–1967)
  • Estanislao Alcaraz y Figueroa (1968–1972), appointed Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán
  • Ezequiel Perea Sánchez (1972–1986)
  • Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez (1987–1999)
  • Luis Morales Reyes (1999–2012) – Archbishop emeritus
  • Jesús Carlos Cabrero Romero (2012–2022) – Archbishop emeritus
  • Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe (2022–present)
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
  • José Luis Dibildox Martínez, appointed Bishop of Tarahumara, Chihuahua in 1993
  • Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Texcoco, México in 2001
  • Lucas Martínez Lara, appointed Bishop of Matehuala, San Luís Potosí in 2006
  • Andrés Vargas Peña, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District in 2010

See also

References

    • "Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí". Catholic-Hierarchy.

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