Diocese of Zamora in Mexico
The Diocese of Zamora is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Morelia. It was erected on 26 January 1863. It has two co-cathedrals in the episcopal see of Zamora, Michoacán: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Mary and Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Bishops
Ordinaries
- José Antonio de la Peña y Navarro
- José María Cázares y Martínez
- José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán
- José Othón Núñez y Zárate, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca
- Manuel Fulcheri y Pietrasanta
- José Gabriel Anaya y Diez de Bonilla
- José Salazar López, appointed Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco
- Adolfo Hernández Hurtado
- José Esaul Robles Jiménez
- Carlos Suárez Cázares
- Javier Navarro Rodríguez
Coadjutor bishop
- José de Jesús Fernández y Barragán
- José Salazar López ; later made cardinal
Auxiliary bishop
- Jaime Calderón Calderón, appointed Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Vicente Castellanos y Núñez, appointed Bishop of Campeche in 1912
- Antonio Guízar y Valencia, appointed Bishop of Chihuahua in 1920
- José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra, appointed Bishop of Tula, Hidalgo in 1961
- José de Jesús Garcia Ayala, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Campeche in 1963
- José Luis Amezcua Melgoza, appointed Bishop of Campeche in 1995
- José Armando Álvarez Cano, appointed Prelate of Huautla, Oaxaca in 2011
- Rafael Valdéz Torres, appointed Bishop of Ensenada, Baja California Norte in 2013
Institutions for Catholic Education
- Seminary of Zamora
- Institute Cázares
Saints, beati, and servants of God of the Diocese of Zamora in Mexico
- Rafael Guízar y Valencia
- José Ma. Cázares y Martínez
- José Sánchez del Río