Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacámbaro

Latin Catholic jurisdiction in Mexico

Diocese of Tacámbaro Dioecesis Tacambarensis Diócesis de Tacámbaro

Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Morelia
Statistics
Area	5,648 sq mi (14,630 km²)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 362,000 346,000 (95.6%)
Parishes	41
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	26 July 1913 (110 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Jerome
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Sede vacante
Metropolitan Archbishop	Carlos Garfias Merlos
Map

Website
www.diocesisdetacambaro.mx

The Diocese of Tacámbaro (Latin: Dioecesis Tacambarensis) 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. The diocese was erected on 26 July 1913. Its cathedra is found within Cathedral of St. Jerome, in the episcopal see of Tacámbaro, Michoacán.

Bishops

Ordinaries

Leopoldo Lara y Torres (1920 -1933)
Manuel Pío López Estrada (1934 -1939), appointed Bishop of Veracruz-Jalapa
José Abraham Martínez Betancourt (1940 -1979)
Luis Morales Reyes (1979 -1985), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Torreón, Coahuila
Alberto Suárez Inda (1985 -1995), appointed Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán; elevated to cardinal in 2015
Rogelio Cabrera López (1996 -2001), appointed Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas
José Luis Castro Medellín, M.S.F. (2002 - 2014)
Gerardo Díaz Vázquez (2014 - 2023)

Auxiliary bishop

Luis Morales Reyes (1976-1979), appointed Bishop here

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Eduardo Cirilo Carmona Ortega (priest here, 1983-1991), appointed Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca in 2003
Joel Ocampo Gorostieta, appointed Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero in 2019