Diocese of Zamora in Mexico

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

Bishops

Ordinaries

• José Antonio de la Peña y Navarro (1863-1877)
• José María Cázares y Martínez (1878-1908)
• José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán (1908-1909)
• José Othón Núñez y Zárate (1909-1922), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca
• Manuel Fulcheri y Pietrasanta (1922-1946)
• José Gabriel Anaya y Diez de Bonilla (1947-1967)
• José Salazar López (1967-1970), appointed Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco (Cardinal in 1973)
• Adolfo Hernández Hurtado (1970-1974)
• José Esaul Robles Jiménez (1974-1993)
• Carlos Suárez Cázares (1994-2006)
• Javier Navarro Rodríguez (2007–Present)

Coadjutor bishop

• José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán (1899-1908)
• José Salazar López (1961-1967); later made cardinal

Auxiliary bishop

• Jaime Calderón Calderón (2012-2018), appointed Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Vicente Castellanos y Núñez, appointed Bishop of Campeche in 1912
• Antonio Guízar y Valencia, appointed Bishop of Chihuahua in 1920
• José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra, appointed Bishop of Tula, Hidalgo in 1961
• José de Jesús Garcia Ayala, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Campeche in 1963
• José Luis Amezcua Melgoza, appointed Bishop of Campeche in 1995
• José Armando Álvarez Cano, appointed Prelate of Huautla, Oaxaca in 2011
• Rafael Valdéz Torres, appointed Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California Norte in 2013

Institutions for Catholic Education

• Seminary of Zamora
• Institute Cázares

Saints, beati, and servants of God of the Diocese of Zamora in Mexico

• Rafael Guízar y Valencia (1878-1938)
• José Ma. Cázares y Martínez (1832-1909)
• José Sánchez del Río (1913-1928)

Territorial losses

Episcopal See

• Zamora, Michoacán

See also

• Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Zamora de Hidalgo

External links and references

• Diócesis de Zamora official site (in Spanish)