The Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca () 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.
, 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 The following is a list of the bishops and archbishops and their tenure of service:
Diocese of Antequera, Oaxaca Juan Lopez de Zárate (1535–1555) Died (in Latin) Bernardo de Albuquerque (1561–1579) Died Bartolomé de Ledesma (1583–1604) Died Baltazar de Cobarrubias y Múñoz (1605–1608) Appointed, Bishop of Michoacán (in Latin) Juan de Cervantes (1608–1614) Died Juan Bartolomé de Bohorquez e Hinojosa (1617–1633) Died Leonel de Cervantes y Caravajal (1636–1637) Died Bartolomé de Benavente y Benavides (1639–1652) Died Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés (1653–1656) Died Juan Alonso de Cuevas y Davalos (1658–1664) Appointed, Archbishop of México Tomás de Monterroso (1664–1678) Died) Nicolás Ortiz del Puerto y Colmenares Salgado (1679–1681) Died Isidoro Sariñara y Medina Cuenca (1683–1696) Died Manuel Plácido de Quirós de Porras (1698–1699) Died Ángel de Maldonado, O. Cist. (1700–1728) Died Francisco de Santiago y Calderón (1729–1736) Died 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 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 José Othón Núñez y Zárate (1922) Héctor González Martínez (1988–1993)
Auxiliary bishops 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 Ángel 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; appointed Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla
See also List of Roman Catholic archdioceses in México
References
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