Archdiocese of Mexico
The Archdiocese of Mexico is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church that is situated in Mexico City, Mexico. It was erected as a diocese on 2 September 1530 and elevated to an archdiocese on 12 February 1546. The archdiocese is one of the largest in the world, with over four million Catholics, surpassed only by Kinshasa, Guadalajara, São Paulo, Puebla de los Ángeles, Santiago de Guatemala, and Milan.
Prior to 2019, the archdiocese was the largest in the world, with nearly 8 million Catholics. In September 2019, Pope Francis approved the division of the archdiocese, erecting three new suffragan dioceses from its territory: Azcapotzalco, Iztapalapa, and Xochimilco. These are the only three suffragans within the ecclesiastical province of which the archdiocese is the metropolitan see. Today, the archdiocese's territory comprises most of Mexico City, with the exception of the three new dioceses, each of which is coextensive with its eponymous borough.
The cathedra of the archdiocese is found within the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City.
Bishops
Ordinaries
Ordinaries who became Cardinals:- Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez, in 1969
- Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, in 1979
- Norberto Rivera Carrera, in 1998
- Carlos Aguiar Retes, in 2016 while Archbishop of Tlalnepantla
Coadjutor archbishop
- Miguel Darío Cardinal Miranda y Gómez ; future Cardinal
Current auxiliary bishops
- Luis Manuel Pérez Raygoza
- Héctor Mario Pérez Villarreal
- Andrés Luis García Jasso
- Francisco Javier Acero Pérez, O.A.R.
Former auxiliary bishops
- Juan Manuel de Irrizarri y Peralta
- Maximino Ruiz y Flores
- Francisco Orozco Lomelín
- José Villalón Mercado
- Alfredo Torres Romero, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Aguascalientes
- Luis Mena Arroyo, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Chihuahua; returned here as Auxiliary Bishop, with personal title of Archbishop
- Jorge Martínez Martínez
- Javier Lozano Barragán, appointed Bishop of Zacatecas; future Cardinal
- Francisco María Aguilera González
- Carlos Talavera Ramírez, appointed Bishop of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz
- Genaro Alamilla Arteaga
- Ricardo Watty Urquidi, M.Sp.S., appointed Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
- Abelardo Alvarado Alcántara
- José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda, appointed Bishop of Irapuato, Guanajuato
- Marcelino Hernández Rodríguez, appointed Bishop of Orizaba, Veracruz
- José Luis Fletes Santana
- Guillermo Rodrigo Teodoro Ortiz Mondragón, appointed Bishop of Cuautitlán, México
- Rogelio Esquivel Medina
- Felipe Tejeda García, M.Sp.S.
- Jonás Guerrero Corona, appointed Bishop of Culiacán, Sinaloa
- Francisco Clavel Gil
- Antonio Ortega Franco, C.O.
- José Víctor Manuel Valentín Sánchez Espinosa, appointed Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles, Puebla
- Carlos Briseño Arch, O.A.R., appointed Bishop of Veracruz
- Florencio Armando Colín Cruz, appointed Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca
- Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco, appointed Bishop of Iztapalapa
- Crispin Ojeda Márquez, appointed Bishop of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
- Jorge Estrada Solórzano, appointed Bishop of Gómez Palacio, Durango
- Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez, M.Sp.S.
- Carlos Enrique Samaniego López, appointed Bishop of Texcoco
- Salvador González Morales
Other priests of the archdiocese who became bishops
- Bernardo Gárate y López de Arizmendi, appointed Bishop of Querétaro
- Manuel Fulcheri y Pietrasanta, appointed Bishop of Cuernavaca
- Gerardo Anaya y Diez de Bonilla, appointed Bishop of Chiapas
- Arturo Vélez Martínez, appointed Bishop of Toluca
Territorial losses