Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón

Diocese of Ciudad Obregón

*Dioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis*

Diócesis de Ciudad Obregón
Diocese of Ciudad Obregón; Dioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis; Diócesis de Ciudad Obregón
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Hermosillo
Metropolitan	Ciudad Obregón
Statistics
Area	34,125 sq mi (88,380 km2)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2006); 1,031,000; 889,000 (86.2%)
Parishes	58
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	20 June 1959 (65 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop elect	Rutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Obregonensis) (erected 20 June 1959). It is centered in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo. Along with the Archdiocese of Chihuahua and the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez, it yielded territory in 1966 to form the Territorial Prelature of Madera.

Bishops

José de la Soledad Torres y Castañeda (28 November 1959 – 4 March 1967)
Miguel González Ibarra (15 July 1967 – 14 November 1981)
Luis Reynoso Cervantes (15 July 1982 – 17 August 1987), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos
Vicente García Bernal (30 March 1988 – 8 November 2005)
Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez (8 November 2005 – 18 June 2009), appointed Bishop of Texcoco
Felipe Padilla Cardona (1 October 2009 – 15 September 2020)
Rutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini (15 September 2020 — present)^[1]

Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, appointed Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California in 2007

^ Zambrano, Jaime (September 15, 2020). "Nombra el Papa a obispo auxiliar de Puebla como obispo de Ciudad Obregón". www.msn.com (in Spanish). Milenio. Retrieved Sep 15, 2020.

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