Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua

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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua (Latin name:Chihuahuensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico.

Erected in 1891 from the diocese of Durango, the diocese encompassed the state of Chihuahua in its entirety. The diocese was elevated to the level of Archdiocese in November of 1958, and now is the metropolitan of the following suffragan dioceses: Ciudad Juárez, Cuauhtémoc-Madera, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Parral and Tarahumara.

The archdiocese encompasses 73,956 square kilometers in the center of the state, and as of 2006, contained 1,176,000 Catholics, 59 parishes, 131 priests and 10 permanent deacons. The archepiscopal see is located in the Cathedral of Chihuahua.

The archdiocese is currently headed by His Excellency, the Most Reverend José Fernández Arteaga, who was appointed in 1991.

[edit] Ordinaries

José de Jesús Ortiz y Rodríguez (1893–1901)
Nicolás Pérez Gavilán y Echeverría (1902–1919)
Antonio Guízar y Valencia (1920–1969)
Adalberto Almeida y Merino (1969–1991) - Archbishop Emeritus, retired and living in the colonia of Nombre de Dios in Chihuahua.
José Fernández Arteaga (1991– )