Archdiocese of Toluca


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toluca is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church.
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History

The Archdiocese of Toluca was erected as a diocese on 4 June 1950 from the Archdiocese of México's territory. Rev. Arturo Vélez Martínez, who had been a priest in the Archdiocese of México, was appointed the first bishop of the new diocese and led it for almost three decades. In 1964, more territory of the Archdiocese of México was added to the Diocese of Toluca.
Along with the Dioceses of Acapulco, Chilapa and Tacámbaro, the Diocese of Toluca lost territory when the Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano was erected in 1964. It further lost territory in 1984 with the formation of the Diocese of Atlacomulco. On 26 November 2009, it lost territory again when Pope Benedict XVI created another suffragan diocese for the Archdiocese of Mexico, the Diocese of Tenancingo.
On 28 September 2019, Pope Francis changed the status of the diocese to that of a metropolitan archdiocese and assigned to it three suffragan dioceses that until then were suffragans of the Archdiocese of Mexico: Atlacomulco, Tenancingo, and Cuernavaca.

Ordinaries

Bishops (1950–2019)

Archbishops (from 2019)

Auxiliary bishop

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Episcopal See