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Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca

*Archidioecesis Antequerensis*
Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca; Archidioecesis Antequerensis
	Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Cathedral at night
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Antequera
Population; - Catholics	; 1,132,000
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	June 21, 1535
Cathedral	Catedral Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Patron saint	Our Lady of the Assumption
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Pedro Vázquez Villalobos
Bishops emeritus	José Luis Chávez Botello; Archbishop emeritus of Antequera, Oaxaca
Map
Website
	arzobispadodeoaxaca.org

The Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca (Latin: Archidioecesis Antequerensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. The cathedral church is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in the episcopal see of Oaxaca. It was erected on June 21, 1535.

The archdiocese covers part of the state of Oaxaca. A metropolitan see, its episcopal conference includes the suffragan dioceses of Puerto Escondido, Tehuantepec, Tuxtepec and the territorial prelatures of Huautla and Mixes. It is currently led by Archbishop Pedro Vázquez Villalobos.

As of 2004^[update], the archdiocese contained 113 parishes, 126 active diocesan priests, 39 religious priests, and 940,000 Catholics. It also had 268 women religious, 59 religious brothers, and 21 permanent deacons.

Diocesan bishops edit

The following is a list of the bishops and archbishops and their tenure of service:

Diocese of Antequera, Oaxaca edit

Juan Lopez de Zárate (1535–1555) Died^[3]
Bernardo de Albuquerque (1561–1579) Died^[3]
Bartolomé de Ledesma (1583–1604) Died^[3]
Baltazar de Cobarrubias y Múñoz (1605–1608) Appointed, Bishop of Michoacán^[3]^[4]
Juan de Cervantes (1608–1614) Died^[4]
Juan Bartolomé de Bohorquez e Hinojosa (1617–1633) Died^[4]
Leonel de Cervantes y Caravajal (1636–1637) Died^[4]
Bartolomé de Benavente y Benavides (1639–1652) Died^[4]
Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés (1653–1656) Died^[4]
Juan Alonso de Cuevas y Davalos (1658–1664) Appointed, Archbishop of México^[4]
Tomás de Monterroso (1664–1678) Died)^[4]
Nicolás Ortiz del Puerto y Colmenares Salgado (1679–1681) Died^[5]
Isidoro Sariñara y Medina Cuenca (1683–1696) Died^[5]
Manuel Plácido de Quirós de Porras (1698–1699) Died^[5]
Ángel de Maldonado, O. Cist. (1700–1728) Died^[5]
Francisco de Santiago y Calderón (1729–1736) Died^[5]
Tomás Montaño y Aarón (1737–1742) Died
Diego Felipe Gómez de Angulo (1744–1752) Died
Buenaventura Blanco y Elguero (Helguero) (1753–1764) Died
Miguel Anselmo Álvarez de Abreu y Valdéz (1765–1774) Died
José Gregorio Alonso de Ortigosa (1775–1793) Resigned
Gregorio Jose de Omaña y Sotomayor (1792–1797) Died
Antonio Bergosa y Jordán (1801–1817) Confirmed, Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain
Manuel Isidoro Perez Sánchez (1819–1837) Resigned
José Epigmenio Villanueva y Gomez de Eguiarreta (1839–1840) Died
Angel Mariano de Morales y Jasso (1841–1843) Died
Antonio Mantecón e Ibañez (1844–1852) Died
José Agustín Domínguez y Diaz (1854–1859) Died
José María Covarrubias y Mejía (1861–1867) Died
Vicente Fermín Márquez y Carrizosa (1868–1887) Died
Eulogio Gregorio Clemente Gillow y Zavalza (1887–1891) see below

Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca edit

elevated June 23, 1891

Eulogio Gregorio Clemente Gillow y Zavalza (1891–1922) Died see above
José Othón Núñez y Zárate (1922–1941) Died
Fortino Gómez León (1942–1967) Retired
Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada (1967–1976) Appointed, Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles
Bartolomé Carrasco Briseño (1976–1993) Retired
Héctor González Martínez (1993–2003) Appointed, Archbishop of Durango
José Luis Chávez Botello (2003–2018)
Pedro Vázquez Villalobos (2018–present)

Coadjutor bishops edit

José Othón Núñez y Zárate (1922)
Héctor González Martínez (1988–1993)

Auxiliary bishops edit

Francisco Ramón Valentín de Casaus y Torres, O.P. (1807–1815), appointed Archbishop of Guatemala
José María Irigoyen y Munoz Cano (1842–1843)
Francisco Garcia Cantarines (1845–1847)
José de Jesús Clemens Alba Palacios (1954–1959), appointed Bishop of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; but was auxiliary here again, 1970–1984
Bartolomé Carrasco Briseño (1967–1971), appointed Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas; but returned here as Archbishop, 1976
Miguel Angel Alba Díaz (1995–2001), appointed Bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur
Óscar Armando Campos Contreras (2006–2010), appointed Bishop of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero (2012–2018), was Celaya Diocese seminary rector when appointed here;^[6] appointed Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla

References edit

^ Catholic Hierarchy page
^ Archdiocese History
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Eubel, Konrad (1923). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. III (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 111. (in Latin)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi. Vol. IV. Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. p. 85. (in Latin)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1913). HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V. Monasterii Sumptibus et typis librariae Regensbergianae. p. 88.
^ "Web Translator".

External links and additional sources edit

Cheney, David M. "Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)^{self-published}
Chow, Gabriel. "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera". GCatholic.org. Retrieved March 25, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops)^{self-published}