Diocese of Tampico Dioecesis Tampicensis Diócesis de Tampico | |
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 Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción | |
| Location | |
| Country | Mexico |
| Ecclesiastical province | Monterrey |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 8,756 sq mi (22,680 km2) |
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| Parishes | 64 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 13 August 1861 (163 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Sede vacante |
| Bishop | José Armando Álvarez Cano |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Rogelio Cabrera López |
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The Diocese of Tampico (Latin : Dioecesis Tampicensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey. It was erected 12 March 1870 as the Diocese of Ciudad Victoria-Tamaulipas and renamed 25 February 1958. The original seat became the new Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Victoria in 1964.
