Diocese of Veracruz

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Diocese of Veracruz

Dioecesis Verae Crucis

Diócesis de Veracruz
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Catedral de la Asunción de María
Location
CountryMexico
Ecclesiastical province Province of Jalapa
Statistics
Area3,476 sq mi (9,000 km2)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2010)
  • 2,105,000
  • 1,894,000 (90%)
Parishes72
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established9 June 1962 (63 years ago)
Cathedral Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop Carlos Briseño Arch, O.A.R.
Metropolitan Archbishop Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong
Bishops emeritus Luis Felipe Gallardo Martín del Campo, S.D.B.
Website
diocesisdeveracruz.mx

The Diocese of Veracruz (Latin : Dioecesis Verae Crucis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. It was erected 9 June 1962. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Xalapa (that was founded in 1844 as "Diocese of Veracruz").

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Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

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