The Rarámuri or Tarahumara are a group of Indigenous people of the Americas living in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. They are renowned for their form of prayer that involves running for extended periods of time.
The Mexican Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Mexico, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, his Curia in Rome and the national Mexican Episcopal Conference. According to the Mexican census, Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion in Mexico, practiced by 77.7 percent of the population in 2020. A Statistica survey suggests this number could be little lower, suggesting Catholics could make up 72 percent of the nation.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church based in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It currently covers an area of 20,827 km². The diocese was erected on 13 July 1548 on territory split off from then Diocese of Michoacán, elevated to Archdiocese on 26 January 1863, and is the Metropolitan see of the suffragan sees of Aguascalientes, Autlán, Ciudad Guzmán, Colima, Jesús Maria del Nayar, San Juan de los Lagos and Tepic.
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Argentina. It is a metropolitan archdiocese with 13 suffragan sees in the country, including two Eastern Catholic eparchies.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Durango is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Mexico. Based in the city of Durango, it is the metropolitan see for the suffragan dioceses of Gómez Palacio, Mazatlán and Torreón as well as the Territorial Prelature of El Salto.
The Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. A metropolitan see, its ecclesiastical province contains three suffragan dioceses: Ciudad Valles, Matehuala and Zacatecas. The cathedra is found within the Cathedral of St. Louis the King in the episcopal see of San Luis Potosí.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez is located in the northern Mexican city of the same name, across the Río Grande from El Paso, Texas. It is part of the ecclesiastical province of Chihuahua and is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua.
The Diocese of Zamora 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. It was erected on 26 January 1863. It has two co-cathedrals in the episcopal see of Zamora, Michoacán: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Mary and Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Guatemala. It is a primatial metropolitan see with six suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chachapoyas is a diocese located in the city of Chachapoyas in the ecclesiastical province of Piura in Peru.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Marta is a diocese located in the city of Santa Marta in the ecclesiastical province of Barranquilla in Colombia.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Socorro y San Gil is a diocese located in the cities of Socorro and San Gil in the ecclesiastical province of Bucaramanga in Colombia.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Coro is a Latin metropolitan archdiocese in western Venezuela.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela is an archdiocese located in the city of Valencia in Venezuela.
Events in the year 1959 in Mexico.
Events in the year 1984 in Mexico.
Peter Masten Dunne (1889–1957) was a historian of the 17th- and 18th-century Jesuit missions of northwestern New Spain.
Pedro de Jesús Maldonado Lucero was a Mexican diocesan priest who became the first canonized saint and martyr from Chihuahua City, Mexico.
José Luis Dibildox Martín was a Mexican Roman Catholic bishop.
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