Roman Catholic Diocese of Nuevo Laredo

The Diocese of Nuevo Laredo (Latin: Dioecesis Novolaredensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey. It covers an area of 7,484 Square Miles (19,378 square kilometers) and serves 980,000 inhabitants of which 86 percent are Catholic. The Diocese of Nuevo Laredo was erected on November 6, 1989 under the papal bull "quo Facilius." The current Bishop of Nuevo Laredo is Enrique Sanchez Martinez, who before coming to Nuevo Laredo in 2015 was the auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Durango.^[1] His predecessor, Gustavo Rodriguez Vega, was called away from the diocese by Pope Francis to serve as Archbishop of Yucatán, which Archdiocese is based in Mérida.

Diocese of Nuevo Laredo Dioecesis Novolaredensis Diócesis de Nuevo Laredo
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Monterrey
Statistics
Area	7,484 sq mi (19,380 km^2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 976,600 791,000 (81%)
Parishes	34
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	6 November 1989 (34 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Holy Spirit
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Enrique Sanchez Martinez
Metropolitan Archbishop	Rogelio Cabrera López
Map
Website
www.diocesisdenuevolaredo.org

Bishops

• Ricardo Watty Urquidi, M.Sp.S. (1989–2008), appointed Bishop of Tepic, Nayarit
• Gustavo Rodríguez Vega (2008-2015), appointed Archbishop of Yucatán^[2][3]
• Enrique Sanchez Martinez (2015- )

External links and references

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

References

1. "Diócesis de Nuevo Laredo is under construction".
2. . Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2015-06-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "Web Translator".