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.
Bishops
Ordinaries
- Ramón María de [San José Moreno y Castañeda], O. Carm.. appointed Bishop of Chiapas
- Buenaventura del Purísimo Corazón de María Portillo y Tejeda, O.F.M., appointed Bishop of Chilapa, Guerrero
- Silvino Ramírez y Cuera
- Alfredo Galindo Mendoza, M.Sp.S.
- Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca, Morelos; future Cardinal
- Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán, appointed Archbishop of Yucatán
- Rafael Romo Muñoz
- Francisco Moreno Barrón
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