Roman Catholic Diocese of Torreón

Roman Catholic diocese in Mexico

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Diocese of Torreón Dioecesis Torreonensis Diócesis de Torreón

Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Carmen
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Durango
Metropolitan	Torreón
Statistics
Area	8,679 sq mi (22,480 km²)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 867,543 694,034 (80%)
Parishes	66
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	19 June 1957 (66 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Luis Martín Barraza Beltrán, Ist. del Prado
Map

Website
www.diocesisdetorreon.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Torreón (Latin: Dioecesis Torreonensis) (erected 19 June 1957) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Durango.

The diocese was the second one created in the state of Coahuila. It comprises the five municipalities that form the Laguna region of the State: Torreón, Francisco I. Madero, Viesca, Matamoros and San Pedro. Before 1959 the territory was part of the Diocese of Saltillo.

Bishops

Ordinaries

Fernando Romo Gutiérrez (1958 - 1990)
Luis Morales Reyes (1990 - 1999), appointed Archbishop of San Luis Potosí, México
José Guadalupe Galván Galindo (2000 - 2017)
Luis Martín Barraza Beltrán, Ist. del Prado (2017 - )