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The Diocese of Tacámbaro (Latin: Dioecesis Tacambarensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Morelia. The diocese was erected on 26 July 1913. Its cathedra is found within Cathedral of St. Jerome, in the episcopal see of Tacámbaro, Michoacán.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Leopoldo Lara y Torres (1920 -1933)
• Manuel Pío López Estrada (1934 -1939), appointed Bishop of Veracruz-Jalapa
• José Abraham Martínez Betancourt (1940 -1979)
• Luis Morales Reyes (1979 -1985), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Torreón, Coahuila
• Alberto Suárez Inda (1985 -1995), appointed Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán; elevated to cardinal in 2015
• Rogelio Cabrera López (1996 -2001), appointed Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas
• José Luis Castro Medellín, M.S.F. (2002 - 2014)
• Gerardo Díaz Vázquez (2014 - 2023)

Auxiliary bishop

• Luis Morales Reyes (1976-1979), appointed Bishop here

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Eduardo Cirilo Carmona Ortega (priest here, 1983-1991), appointed Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca in 2003
• Joel Ocampo Gorostieta, appointed Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero in 2019

Territorial losses

Episcopal See

• Tacámbaro, Michoacán

External links and references

• "Diocese of Tacámbaro". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-08.