Archdiocese of Durango
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Durango is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Mexico. Based in the city of Durango, it is the metropolitan see for the suffragan dioceses of Gómez Palacio, Mazatlán and Torreón as well as the Territorial Prelature of El Salto.
Early history
The diocese had been erected in 1620 as the diocese for the entire northern area of New Spain and is considered a mother diocese-Sonora, Archdiocese of Santa Fe and Chihuahua were formed from Durango as population expanded in the 18th and 19th Centuries. It became a metropolitan archdiocese in 1891.Bishops
Ordinaries
;Diocese of DurangoErected: 28 September 1620
- Gonzalo Hernandez y Hermosillo y Gonzalez, O.S.A.
- Alfonso de Franco y Luna
- Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés, O.S.B.
- Pedro de Barrientos Lomelin
- Juan Aguirre y Gorozpe
- Juan de Ortega Cano Montañez y Patiño
- Bartolomé Garcia de Escañuela, O.F.M.
- Manuel de Herrera, O.F.M.
- García Felipe de Legazpi y Velasco Altamirano y Albornoz
- Manuel de Escalante Colombres y Mendoza
- Ignacio Diez de la Barrera y Bastida
- Pedro de Tapiz y Garcia
- Benito Crespo y Monroy, O.S.
- Martín de Elizacoechea
- Pedro Anselmo Sánchez de Tagle
- Pedro Zamorana Romezal
- José Vicente Díaz Bravo, O. Carm.
- Antonio Macarulla Minguilla de Aguilain
- Esteban Lorenzo de Tristán y Esmenota
- José Joaquín Granados y Gálvez, O.F.M.
- Francisco Gabriel de Olivares y Benito
- Juan Francisco Castañiza Larrea y Gonzalez de Agüero
- José Antonio Laureano de Zubiría y Escalante
- José Vicente Salinas e Infanzón
Elevated: 23 June 1891
- Santiago de Zubiría y Manzanera
- Francisco de Paula Mendoza y Herrera
- José María González y Valencia
- Lucio Torreblanca y Tapia
- Antonio López Aviña
- José Trinidad Medel Pérez
- Héctor González Martínez
- José Antonio Fernández Hurtado
- Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez
Auxiliary bishops
- José María González y Valencia, appointed Archbishop here
- Francisco Ferreira Arreola, appointed Bishop of Texcoco, México
- Rafael Barraza Sánchez, appointed Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa
- Manuel Mireles Vaquera, appointed Coadjutor Prelate of El Salto, Durango
- José Andrés Corral Arredondo, appointed Bishop of Parral, Chihuahua
- Juan de Dios Caballero Reyes
- Enrique Sánchez Martínez, appointed Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Nicolás Pérez Gavilán y Echeverría, appointed Bishop of Chihuahua in 1902
- Norberto Rivera Carrera, appointed Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla in 1985; future Cardinal
Present Bishops
- Archbishop: Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez
- Archbishop Emeritus: Héctor González Martínez
- Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus: Juan de Dios Caballero Reyes