Diocese of Ciudad Victoria

The Diocese of Ciudad Victoria (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Victoriensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey. The diocese was erected on 21 December 1964. from territory split from the Diocese of Tampico (that had the name of Diocese of Ciudad Victoria between 1870 and 1958).

Diocese of Ciudad Victoria Dioecesis Civitatis Victoriensis Diócesis de Ciudad Victoria
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Monterrey
Statistics
Area	15,341 sq mi (39,730 km2)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2006) 463,762 387,241 (83.5%)
Parishes	33
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	21 December 1964 (61 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Bishop	Oscar Efraín Tamez Villarreal
Metropolitan Archbishop	Rogelio Cabrera López
Bishops emeritus	Antonio González Sánchez
Website
www.diocesisdevictoria.org

Ordinaries

• José de Jesús Tirado Pedraza (1965-1973)
• Alfonso de Jesús Hinojosa Berrones (1974-1985)
• Raymundo López Mateos, O.F.M. (1985-1994)
• Antonio González Sánchez (1995-2021)
• Oscar Efraín Tamez Villarreal (2021-present)

Episcopal See

• Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas

External links

• "Diocese of Ciudad Victoria". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-07.