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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Culiacán (Latin: Dioecesis Culiacanensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• José de Jesús María Uriarte y Pérez (1883 — 1887)
• José María de Jesús Portugal y Serratos, O.F.M. (1888 — 1898), appointed Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila
• José Homobono Anaya y Gutiérrez (1898 — 1902), appointed Bishop of Chilapa, Guerrero
• Francisco Uranga y Sáenz (1903 — 1919)
• Silviano Carrillo y Cardenas (1920 — 1921)
• Agustín Aguirre y Ramos (1922 — 1942)
• Lino Aguirre Garcia (1944 — 1969)
• Luis Rojas Mena (1969 — 1993)
• Benjamín Jiménez Hernández (1993 — 2011) - Bishop Emeritus
• Jonás Guerrero Corona (2011 — )

Auxiliary bishops

• Luis Rojas Mena (1968-1969), appointed Bishop here
• Jesús Humberto Velázquez Garay (1983-1988), appointed Bishop of Celaya, Guanajuato
• Benjamín Jiménez Hernández (1989-1993), appointed Bishop here
• Emigdio Duarte Figueroa (2007-2010)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Jesús María Echavarría y Aguirre, appointed Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila in 1904

Episcopal See

• Culiacán, Sinaloa

External links and references

• "Diocese of Culiacán". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-05.

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