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(DE ZACATECAS).
Diocese in theRepublic of Mexico, suffragan ofGuadalajara. Its area is almost the same as that of the State of Zacatecas. Its population (1910) 475,863. Thebishop and governor of the state reside in Zacatecas, which has 25,905 inhabitants (census of 1910), situated 2442 metres of above sea level. This territory was conquered and peopled by the Spanish between 1546 and 1548. The firstparish, founded in 1569, belonged to theSee of Guadalajara. The following orders established themselves in this famous mineral region:Franciscans in 1567; Augustinians, 1576; Dominicans, 1604; Order of St. John, 1610; Jesuits, 1616; andMercedarians, 1701. The famous College of the Propagation of the Faith, founded by theVenerable Father Margil, and inaugurated, 4 May, 1721, sent out missionaries toTexas, to the French inLouisiana, and to Tamaulipas (1768), and took charge of various missions abandoned by theJesuits, when expelled from Tarahumara and Lower California. When, in 1836, theMexican Government asked that abishopric be created atSan Francisco,California, Francisco Garcia Diego of this college wasconsecrated firstbishop in 1849. During the religiouspersecution in 1859 all the religious of the college wereimprisoned, and allpriests who deniedabsolution to those who had given theiroath to the constitution of 1857, were liable to punishment; the fewpriests in the town hastily fled. The Diocese of Zacatecas was created fromparishes ofGuadalajara byPius IX in 1863, and became suffragan ofGuadalajara. It has: 2seminaries with 101 students; 144parochialschools, 19 colleges with about 7000 students.Protestants have 3 colleges with 55 students and 9 churches. Thecathedral was begun in 1612 and completed in 1782. Itsfaçade is of red stone, elegant, severe, and grandiose. On the hill known as the Bufa, on the outskirts of Zacatecas, is thevenerated sanctuary of Nuestra Senora de los Remedios.
VERA, Catecismo geogr. hist. estad. de la Iglesia Mexicana (Amecameca, 1881); SOTOMAYOR, Historia del apostolico Colegio de Ntra Sra de Guadalupe de Zacatecas.
APA citation.Crivelli, C.(1912).Zacatecas. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15740a.htm
MLA citation.Crivelli, Camillus."Zacatecas."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 15.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1912.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15740a.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Michael T. Barrett.Dedicated to the Catholics of the Diocese of Zacatecas.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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