Diocese of Tepic Dioecesis Tepicensis Diócesis de Tepic
Catedral de la Purísima Concepción
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Guadalajara
Metropolitan	Guadalajara
Coordinates	21°30′42.815″N104°53′28.846″W / 21.51189306°N 104.89134611°W /21.51189306; -104.89134611
Statistics
Area	8,797 sq mi (22,780 km2)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2006) 1,139,584 1,107,800 (97.2%)
Parishes	78
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	23 June 1891 (134 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Bishop	Luis Artemio Flores Calzada
Metropolitan Archbishop	Francisco Robles Ortega
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TheRoman Catholic Diocese of Tepic (Latin:Dioecesis Tepicensis)) is asuffragan Latin diocese in theecclesiastical province of the MetropolitanArchdiocese of Guadalajara in westernMexico.

Itscathedral episcopal see is the Catedral de la Purísima Concepción, dedicated to theImmaculate Conception, inTepic, the capital ofNayarit state. It also has aMinor Basilica: Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Talpa, dedicated toOur Lady of the Rosary, inTalpa de Allende,Jalisco.

As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,168,480 Catholics (88.1% of 1,325,985 total) on 22,777 km² in 92 parishes and 36 missions with 214 priests (207 diocesan, 7 religious), 205 lay religious (11 brothers, 194 sisters) and 54 seminarians.

It was erected 23 June 1891 asDiocese of Tepic / Tepicen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, theArchdiocese of Guadalajara.

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Suffragan Bishops of Tepic

1. Ignacio Díaz y Macedo (1893.01.19 – death 1905.06.14)
2. Andrés Segura y Domínguez (1906.08.06 – death 1918.08.13)
3. Manuel Azpeitia Palomar (1919.08.10 – death 1935.03.01)
4. Anastasio Hurtado y Robles (1935.12.21 – retired 1970.07.13), emeritate asTitular Bishop ofCissa (1970.07.13 – resigned 1970.12.31); died 1972
   1. Auxiliary Bishop: José Manuel Piña Torres (1958.05.12 – retired 1970.05.16), Titular Bishop ofMilevum (1958.05.12 – death 1997.07.07)
5. Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera (1971.05.14 – 1980.05.08), next Bishop ofTlalnepantla (Mexico) (1980.05.08 – 1983.11.08), Metropolitan Archbishop ofMonterrey (Mexico) (1983.11.08 – 2003.01.25), President of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.) (1988 – 1994),Apostolic Administrator ofCiudad Victoria (Mexico) (1994.11.03 – retired 1995.12), createdCardinal-Priest ofNostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario (1994.11.26 – death 2008.03.22)
6. Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota (1981.01.12 – retired 2008.02.21), died 2017
7. Ricardo Watty Urquidi (2008.02.21 – death 2011.11.01),Spiritans (M.Sp.S.), previously Titular Bishop ofMacomades (1980.05.27 – 1989.11.06) as Auxiliary Bishop ofMéxico (City) (Mexico) (1980.05.27 – 1989.11.06), Bishop ofNuevo Laredo (Mexico) (1989.11.06 – 2008.02.21)
8. Luis Artemio Flores Calzada (30 March 2012 – ...), previously Bishop ofValle de Chalco (Mexico) (2003.07.08 – 2012.03.30).

• José Manuel Piña Torres (1958-1970)

• Mario Espinosa Contreras, appointed Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla in 1996
• Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District in 2009

• List of Catholic dioceses in Mexico
• Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Tepic

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