Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuernavaca

Diocese of Cuernavaca Dioecesis Cuernavacensis Diócesis de Cuernavaca
Catedral de la Asunción de María
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Toluca
Metropolitan	Cuernavaca
Statistics
Area	1,908 sq mi (4,940 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 2,144,000 1,854,000 (86.5%)
Parishes	109
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	23 June 1891 (132 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Ramón Castro Castro
Metropolitan Archbishop	Francisco Javier Chavolla Ramos
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuernavaca (Latin: Dioecesis Cuernavacensis) (erected 23 June 1891) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Toluca. Its seat is in the Cuernavaca Cathedral. S.E.R. Mons. Ramón Castro Castro was named 12th Bishop of Cuernavaca by Pope Francis on May 15, 2013.

Ordinaries

• Fortino Hipólito Vera y Talonia (1894–1898).^[1]
• Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete (1898–1911), appointed Archbishop of Linares o Nueva León, Nuevo León.^[2]
• Manuel Fulcheri y Pietrasanta (1912–1922), appointed Bishop of Zamora, Michoacán.^[3]
• Francisco Uranga y Sáenz (1922–1930).^[4]
• Francisco María González y Arias (1931–1946).^[5]
• Alfonso Espino y Silva (1947–1951), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León.^[6]
• Sergio Méndez Arceo (1952–1982).^[7]
• Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1982–1987), appointed Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México; elevated to Cardinal in 1991.^[8]
• Luis Reynoso Cervantes (1987–2000).^[9]
• Florencio Olvera Ochoa (2002–2009).^[10]
• Alfonso Cortes Contreras (2009–2012), appointed Archbishop of León, Guanajuato.^[11]
• S.E.R. Mons. Ramón Castro Castro (2012–present)^[12][13]

Episcopal See

• Cuernavaca, Morelos

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