Roman Catholic Diocese of Zamora in Mexico

The Diocese of Zamora (Dioecesis Zamorensis in Mexico) 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

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)

Episcopal See

 * Zamora, Michoacán

External links and references

 * Diócesis de Zamora official site (in Spanish)