Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacámbaro

The Diocese of Tacámbaro (Latin: Dioecesis Tacambarensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Morelia. The diocese was erected on 26 July 1913. Its cathedra is found within Cathedral of St. Jerome, in the episcopal see of Tacámbaro, Michoacán.

Diocese of Tacámbaro Dioecesis Tacambarensis Diócesis de Tacámbaro
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Morelia
Statistics
Area	5,648 sq mi (14,630 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 362,000 346,000 (95.6%)
Parishes	41
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	26 July 1913 (111 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Jerome
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Sede vacante
Metropolitan Archbishop	Carlos Garfias Merlos
Map
Website
www.diocesisdetacambaro.mx

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Leopoldo Lara y Torres (1920 -1933)
• Manuel Pío López Estrada (1934 -1939), appointed Bishop of Veracruz-Jalapa
• José Abraham Martínez Betancourt (1940 -1979)
• Luis Morales Reyes (1979 -1985), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Torreón, Coahuila
• Alberto Suárez Inda (1985 -1995), appointed Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán; elevated to cardinal in 2015
• Rogelio Cabrera López (1996 -2001), appointed Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas
• José Luis Castro Medellín, M.S.F. (2002 - 2014)
• Gerardo Díaz Vázquez (2014 - 2023)

Auxiliary bishop

• Luis Morales Reyes (1976-1979), appointed Bishop here

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Eduardo Cirilo Carmona Ortega (priest here, 1983-1991), appointed Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca in 2003
• Joel Ocampo Gorostieta, appointed Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero in 2019

Territorial losses

Year	Along with	To form
1962	Diocese of Colima	Diocese of Apatzingan
1964	Diocese of Acapulco Diocese of Chilapa Diocese of Toluca	Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano

Episcopal See

• Tacámbaro, Michoacán

External links and references

• "Diocese of Tacámbaro". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-08.