Diocese of Valle de Chalco, Mexico

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Valle de Chalco / Vallis Chalcen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Tlalnepantla

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

2003.07.08: Established as Diocese of Valle de Chalco / Vallis Chalcen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Nezahualcóyotl and became suffragan of Tlalnepantla)

Contact Info

Address: Alzate #10, Col. Centro, 56600 - Chalco, Mex., Mexico

Phone: (55) 59-73-13-79

Tweets

Present Prelates

Bishop (2012.10.25 – ...):

Bishop Víctor René Rodríguez Gómez (73)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Valle de Chalco (Roman Rite)

Bishop Víctor René Rodríguez Gómez (73)
(2012.10.25 – ...)

Bishop of Valle de Chalco (Mexico)

Verbum caro

Born:	1950.11.17 (San Martín de las Pirámides, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1976.11.21
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.07.25

Priest of Texcoco (Mexico) (1976.11.21 – 2006.05.13)

Titular Bishop of Tiburnia (2006.05.13 – 2012.10.25)

Auxiliary Bishop of Texcoco (Mexico) (2006.05.13 – 2012.10.25)

General Secretary of Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (C.E.M.) (2009 – 2012)

Bishop of Valle de Chalco (Mexico) (2012.10.25 – ...)

Bishop Luis Artemio Flores Calzada (75)
(2003.07.08 – 2012.03.30)

Bishop of Tepic (Mexico)

Urge que Cristo reine

Born:	1949.04.28 (San Antonio Tultitlán, Mexico)
Ordained Priest:	1974.10.17
Consecrated Bishop:	2003.09.08

Priest of Texcoco (Mexico) (1974.10.17 – 2003.07.08)

Bishop of Valle de Chalco (Mexico) (2003.07.08 – 2012.03.30)

Bishop of Tepic (Mexico) (2012.03.30 – ...)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de San Juan Diego, Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias, México

Xochimilco (←), Nezahualcóyotl (↑), Puebla de los Ángeles (→), Cuernavaca (↓)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 1,237 km²

Population: 2,571,000 Catholics (88.1% of 2,919,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 57 parishes, 12 missions

Personnel: 87 priests (72 diocesan, 15 religious), 200 religious (16 brothers, 184 sisters), 17 seminarians