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 Mexico
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 (125 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Sede vacante
Metropolitan Archbishop	Norberto Rivera Carrera
Emeritus Bishops	Florencio Olvera Ochoa
Website
www.diocesisdecuernavaca.org.mx

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuernavaca (Latin: Dioecesis Cuernavacensis) (erected 23 June 1891) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of México. Its seat is in the Cuernavaca Cathedral. On Saturday, December 22, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Alfonso Cortes Contreras of Cuernavaca as Metropolitan Archbishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Leon, so the Diocese of Cuernavaca is currently vacant (sede vacante).^[1]

Ordinaries

• Fortino Hipólito Vera y Talonia (1894–1898)
• Francisco Plancarte y Navarrette (1898–1911)
• Manuel Fulcheri y Pietrasanta (1912–1922)
• Francisco Uranga y Sáenz (1922–1930)
• Francisco María González y Arias (1931–1946)
• Alfonso Espino y Silva (1947–1951)
• Sergio Méndez Arceo (1952–1982)
• Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1982–1987)
• Luis Reynoso Cervantes (1987–2000)
• Florencio Olvera Ochoa (2002–2009)
• Alfonso Cortes Contreras (2009–2012)

Episcopal See

• Cuernavaca, Morelos

External links and references

Wikisource has the text of a 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article about Diocese of Cuernavaca.

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