Archdiocese of Tijuana


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tijuana is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Mexico. It is based in the city of Tijuana, Baja California, and the province has the suffragan dioceses of Roman [Catholic Diocese of Ensenada|Ensenada], La Paz en la [Baja California">La Paz, Baja California Sur">La Paz en la [Baja California Sur|La Paz en la Baja California Sur], and Mexicali.
It was founded in 1855 as a vicariate for the Baja California's missions that were under the apostolic administration of the Archdiocese of [Mexico City].
Pope Pius IX created the Apostolic Vicariate of Baja California in 1874. The see of the apostolic vicariate was in La Paz until 1939, later in Ensenada and, since 1944, in Tijuana.
In 1957 the southern part of Baja California became a separate apostolic prefecture and in 1963 the apostolic vicariate became the Diocese of Tijuana.

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Other priests of this diocese who became bishops