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Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos

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Territory
  
State of Jalisco,

Parishes
  
80

Area
  
12,000 km²

Country
  
Mexico

Metropolitan
  
San Juan de los Lagos

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Phone
  
+52 395 785 0570

Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos

Ecclesiastical province
  
Archdiocese of Guadalajara

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2014)1,115,0001,084,000 (97.2%)

Address
  
Hidalgo 227, Centro, 47000 San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico

Bishop
  
Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe

Patron saint
  
Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos

The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis a Lacubus) (erected 25 March 1972) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara. It encompasses the parishes of some of the surrounding cities in the Mexican state of Jalisco, including Tepatitlán de Morelos, Arandas, etc.

Ordinaries

  • Francisco Javier Nuño y Guerrero (1972 -1980)
  • José López Lara (1981 -1987)
  • José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco (1988 -1999) - Bishop Emeritus
  • Javier Navarro Rodríguez (1999 -2007)
  • Felipe Salazar Villagrana (2008- 2016)
  • Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe (2016 - Present)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos Wikipedia
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