Diocese of Parral, Mexico 🇲🇽

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Parral / Parralen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Chihuahua

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1992.05.11: Established as Diocese of Parral / Parralen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chihuahua and Apostolic Vicariate of Tarahumara and became suffragan of Chihuahua)

Contact Info

Address: Fr. Bartolomé #13, Centro, 33800 - Parral, Chih., Mexico

Phone: (627) 5-22-03-71

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.11.21 – ...):

Bishop Mauricio Urrea Carrillo (56)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Parral (Roman Rite)

Bishop Mauricio Urrea Carrillo (56)
(2020.11.21 – ...)

Bishop of Parral (Mexico)

Non enim habemus hic manentem civitatem, sed futurum inquirimus

Born:	1969.07.06 (Nogales, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	2004.02.05
Consecrated Bishop:	2021.03.19

Priest of Nogales (Mexico) (2004.02.05 – 2020.11.21)

Bishop of Parral (Mexico) (2020.11.21 – ...)

Bishop Eduardo Cirilo Carmona Ortega, C.O.R.C. (66)
(2012.06.27 – 2019.11.06)

Bishop of Córdoba (Mexico)

Según el corazón de Cristo

Born:	1959.03.18 (México, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1983.08.20
Consecrated Bishop:	2004.01.07

Bishop of Puerto Escondido (Mexico) (2003.11.08 – 2012.06.27)

Bishop of Parral (Mexico) (2012.06.27 – 2019.11.06)

Coadjutor Bishop of Córdoba (Mexico) (2019.11.06 – 2020.07.04)

Bishop of Córdoba (Mexico) (2020.07.04 – ...)

Bishop José Andrés Corral Arredondo
(1992.07.11 – 2011.12.24)

Born:	1946.11.30 (Coloradas, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1970.11.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1989.02.22
Died:	2011.12.24 († 65)

Titular Bishop of Cincari (1989.01.16 – 1992.07.11)

Auxiliary Bishop of Durango (Mexico) (1989.01.16 – 1992.07.11)

Bishop of Parral (Mexico) (1992.07.11 – 2011.12.24)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Parral, Chihuahua

Culiacán (↙), Tarahumara (←), Chihuahua (↑), Saltillo (→), Gómez Palacio (↘), Durango (↓), El Salto (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 43,674 km²

Population: 243,209 Catholics (87.0% of 279,550 total)

Pastoral Centres: 21 parishes

Personnel: 45 priests (diocesan), 7 deacons, 31 religious (31 sisters), 13 seminarians