Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Valles

Diocese of Ciudad Valles Dioecesis Vallipolitana Diócesis de Ciudad Valles
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	San Luis Potosí
Statistics
Area	5,512 sq mi (14,280 km^2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 999,000 939,000 (94%)
Parishes	42
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	27 November 1960 (63 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Roberto Yenny García
Metropolitan Archbishop	Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe
Bishops emeritus	Roberto Octavio Balmori Cinta, M.J.
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Website
www.diocesisdeciudadvalles.org.mx

The Diocese of Ciudad Valles (Latin: Dioecesis Vallipolitana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. The diocese was erected on 27 November 1960. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí. It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Monterrey until 25 November 2006. It cathedra is found within the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the episcopal see of Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Carlos Quintero Arce (1961 - 1966)
• Alfonso Reyes Ramos (1966 - 1969)
• José Melgoza Osorio (1970 - 1979)
• Juvencio González Alvarez (1980 - 1995)
• José Guadalupe Galván Galindo (1994 - 2000)
• Roberto Octavio Balmori Cinta, M.J. (2002 - 2020)
• Roberto Yenny García (2020 - present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Héctor Luis Morales Sánchez, appointed Prelate of Huautla, Oaxaca in 2005

Territorial losses

Year	Along with	To form
1997	Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí	Diocese of Matehuala

External links and references

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

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