The Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. The cathedral church is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in the episcopal see of Oaxaca. It was erected on June 21, 1535.
The archdiocese covers part of the state of Oaxaca. A metropolitan see, its episcopal conference includes the suffragan dioceses of Puerto Escondido, Tehuantepec, Tuxtepec and the territorial prelatures of Huautla and Mixes. It is currently led by Archbishop Pedro Vázquez Villalobos.
, the archdiocese contained 113 parishes, 126 active diocesan priests, 39 religious priests, and 940,000 Catholics. It also had 268 women religious, 59 religious brothers, and 21 permanent deacons.
Diocesan bishops
The following is a list of the bishops and archbishops and their tenure of service:
Diocese of Antequera, Oaxaca
Juan Lopez de Zárate (1535–1555) Died
Bernardo de Albuquerque (1561–1579) Died
Bartolomé de Ledesma (1583–1604) Died
Baltazar de Cobarrubias y Múñoz (1605–1608) Appointed, Bishop of Michoacán
Juan de Cervantes (1608–1614) Died
Juan Bartolomé de Bohorquez e Hinojosa (1617–1633) Died
Leonel de Cervantes y Caravajal (1636–1637) Died
Bartolomé de Benavente y Benavides (1639–1652) Died
Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés (1653–1656) Died
Juan Alonso de Cuevas y Davalos (1658–1664) Appointed, Archbishop of México
Tomás de Monterroso (1664–1678) Died) Nicolás Ortiz del Puerto y Colmenares Salgado (1679–1681) Died Isidoro Sariñara y Medina Cuenca (1683–1696) Died Manuel Plácido de Quirós de Porras (1698–1699) Died Ángel de Maldonado, O. Cist. (1700–1728) Died Francisco de Santiago y Calderón (1729–1736) Died Tomás Montaño y Aarón (1737–1742) Died Diego Felipe Gómez de Angulo (1744–1752) Died Buenaventura Blanco y Elguero (Helguero) (1753–1764) Died Miguel Anselmo Álvarez de Abreu y Valdéz (1765–1774) Died José Gregorio Alonso de Ortigosa (1775–1793) Resigned Gregorio Jose de Omaña y Sotomayor (1792–1797) Died Antonio Bergosa y Jordán (1801–1817) Confirmed, Archbishop of Tarragona, Spain Manuel Isidoro Perez Sánchez (1819–1837) Resigned José Epigmenio Villanueva y Gomez de Eguiarreta (1839–1840) Died Angel Mariano de Morales y Jasso (1841–1843) Died Antonio Mantecón e Ibañez (1844–1852) Died José Agustín Domínguez y Diaz (1854–1859) Died José María Covarrubias y Mejía (1861–1867) Died Vicente Fermín Márquez y Carrizosa (1868–1887) Died Eulogio Gregorio Clemente Gillow y Zavalza (1887–1891) see below
Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca
elevated June 23, 1891
Eulogio Gregorio Clemente Gillow y Zavalza (1891–1922) Died see above
José Othón Núñez y Zárate (1922–1941) Died
Fortino Gómez León (1942–1967) Retired
Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada (1967–1976) Appointed, Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles Bartolomé Carrasco Briseño (1976–1993) Retired Héctor González Martínez (1993–2003) Appointed, Archbishop of Durango José Luis Chávez Botello (2003–2018) Pedro Vázquez Villalobos (2018–present)
Coadjutor bishops
José Othón Núñez y Zárate (1922) Héctor González Martínez (1988–1993)
Auxiliary bishops
Francisco Ramón Valentín de Casaus y Torres, O.P. (1807–1815), appointed Archbishop of Guatemala José María Irigoyen y Munoz Cano (1842–1843) Francisco Garcia Cantarines (1845–1847) José de Jesús Clemens Alba Palacios (1954–1959), appointed Bishop of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; but was auxiliary here again, 1970–1984 Bartolomé Carrasco Briseño (1967–1971), appointed Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas; but returned here as Archbishop, 1976 Miguel Angel Alba Díaz (1995–2001), appointed Bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur Óscar Armando Campos Contreras (2006–2010), appointed Bishop of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca Gonzalo Alonso Calzada Guerrero (2012–2018), was Celaya Diocese seminary rector when appointed here; appointed Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla
See also
List of Roman Catholic archdioceses in México
References
External links and additional sources
(for Chronology of Bishops) (for Chronology of Bishops)