Diocese of Ciudad Obregón

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón () (erected 20 June 1959). It is centered in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo. Along with the Archdiocese of Chihuahua and the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez, it yielded territory in 1966 to form the Territorial Prelature of Madera.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• José de la Soledad Torres y Castañeda (28 November 1959 – 4 March 1967)
• Miguel González Ibarra (15 July 1967 – 14 November 1981)
• Luis Reynoso Cervantes (15 July 1982 – 17 August 1987), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos
• Vicente García Bernal (30 March 1988 – 8 November 2005)
• Juan Manuel Mancilla Sánchez (8 November 2005 – 18 June 2009), appointed Bishop of Texcoco
• Felipe Padilla Cardona (1 October 2009 – 15 September 2020)
• Rutilo Felipe Pozos Lorenzini (15 September 2020 — present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Sigifredo Noriega Barceló, appointed Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California in 2007

Episcopal See

• Ciudad Obregón, Sonora

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