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The Diocese of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas (Latin: Dioecesis Civitatis Lazari Cárdenas) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province to the metropolitan Archdiocese of Morelia. Its cathedra is within the Cathedral of Christ the King, in the episcopal see of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.

History

The Diocese of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas was erected on 11 October 1985. It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Acapulco until 25 November 2006.

Ordinaries

• José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra (1985 – 1993)
• Salvador Flores Huerta (1993 – 2006)
• Fabio Martínez Castilla (2007 - 2013), appointed Archbishop of Tuxtla Gutierrez^[1]
• Armando António Ortíz Aguirre (2013 - present)

External links and references

• "Diocese of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-11.

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