Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tijuana

Archdiocese of Tijuana Archidioecesis Tigiuanaënsis Arquidiócesis de Tijuana
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Tijuana
Metropolitan	Tijuana
Statistics
Area	9,641 sq mi (24,970 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 2,284,000 2,170,000 (95%)
Parishes	95
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	20 January 1874 (150 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Francisco Moreno Barrón
Map
Website
www.iglesiatijuana.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tijuana (Latin: Archidioecesis Tigiuanaënsis) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Mexico. It is based in the city of Tijuana, Baja California, and the province has the suffragan dioceses of Ensenada, La Paz en la Baja California Sur, and Mexicali.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Ramón María de San José Moreno y Castañeda, O. Carm. (1873–1879). appointed Bishop of Chiapas (Ciudad Real de Chiapas)
• Buenaventura del Purísimo Corazón de María Portillo y Tejeda, O.F.M. (1880–1882), appointed Bishop of Chilapa, Guerrero
• Silvino Ramírez y Cuera (1921–1922)
• Alfredo Galindo Mendoza, M.Sp.S. (1948–1970)
• Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1970–1982), appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos; future Cardinal
• Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán (1983–1995), appointed Archbishop of Yucatán
• Rafael Romo Muñoz (1996–2016)
• Francisco Moreno Barrón (2016–present)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Francisco Javier Chavolla Ramos, appointed Bishop of Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 1991
• Ramón Castro Castro, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Yucatán in 2004

See also

• List of Roman Catholic archdioceses in México

External links and references

• "Archdiocese of Tijuana". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-02.
• Official Website of the Archdiocese: http://www.iglesiatijuana.org/