Diocese of Tacámbaro, Mexico 🇲🇽 (original) (raw)

Celebrations

History

• 1913.07.26: Established as Diocese of Tacámbaro / Tacambaren(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Michoacán and Diocese of Zamora and became suffragan of Michoacán)
• 1953.05.02: Lost territory to Diocese of Colima
• 1962.04.30: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Apatzingán
• 1964.10.27: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano

Contact Info

Address: Enrique Aguilar #48, Centro, 61650 - Tacámbaro, Mich., Mexico

Phone: (459) 5-96-00-44

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.06.08 – ...):	Bishop Juan Carlos Arcq Guzmán (57)

Ordinaries

Former Prelates

• Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Luis Morales Reyes (later Archbishop) (1976.03.08 – 1979.06.05)
• Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Gilberto Valbuena Sánchez (1972.12.09 – 1976.03.01)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 14,624 km²

Population: 320,000 Catholics (93.0% of 344,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 42 parishes

Personnel: 84 priests (diocesan), 91 religious (91 sisters), 49 seminarians