Diocese of Papantla
The Diocese of Papantla is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. It was erected 24 November 1922 and based in the Mexican city of Papantla, Veracruz. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Xalapa. Along with the Roman [Catholic Diocese of Huejutla|Dioceses of Huejutla], Tulancingo and Tampico, it lost territory in 1962 to form the Diocese of Tuxpan.
Bishops
Ordinaries
- Nicolás Corona y Corona
- Luis Cabrera Cruz, appointed Bishop of San Luis Potosí
- Alfonso Sánchez Tinoco
- Sergio Obeso Rivera, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Jalapa, Veracruz; future Cardinal
- Genaro Alamilla Arteaga
- Lorenzo [Cárdenas Aregullín]
- Jorge Carlos Patron Wong ; formerly served as Coadjutor Bishop to Bishop Aregullín; named Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy on September 21, 2013 and became an archbishop
- José [Trinidad Zapata Ortiz] (2014-
Coadjutor bishop
- Jorge Carlos [Patrón Wong]
Episcopal see