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Roman Catholic Diocese of Papantla

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Parishes
  
50

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Hipólito Reyes Larios

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Country
  
Mexico

Roman Catholic Diocese of Papantla

Area
  
4,635 sq mi (12,000 km)

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2004) 1,799,648 1,380,738 (76.6%)

Established
  
24 November 1922 (94 years ago)

Ecclesiastical provinces
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Xalapa, Papantla

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Papantla (Latin: Dioecesis Papantlensis) (erected 24 November 1922 and based in the Mexican city of Papantla, Veracruz) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Jalapa. Along with the Dioceses of Huejutla, Tulancingo and Tampico, it lost territory in 1962 to form the Diocese of Tuxpan.

Ordinaries

  • Nicolás Corona y Corona (1922–1950)
  • Luis Cabrera Cruz (1950–1958)
  • Alfonso Sánchez Tinoco (1959–1970)
  • Sergio Obeso Rivera (1971–1974)
  • Genaro Alamilla Arteaga (1974–1980)
  • Lorenzo Cárdenas Aregullín (1980–2012 )
  • Jorge Carlos Patron Wong (2012–2013); formerly served as Coadjutor Bishop to Bishop Aregullín; named Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy on September 21, 2013

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Papantla Wikipedia
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