Archdiocese of Durango Archidioecesis Durangensis Arquidiócesis de Durango
Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Durango
Metropolitan	Durango, Durango
Statistics
Area	42,264 sq mi (109,460 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 1,785,000 1,642,200 (92%)
Parishes	105
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	28 September 1620 (403 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez
Bishops emeritus	Héctor González Martinez Juan de Dios Caballero Reyes
Map
Website
arquidiocesisdgo.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Durango (Latin: Archidioecesis Durangensis) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Mexico. Based in the city of Durango, it is the metropolitan see for the suffragan dioceses of Gómez Palacio, Mazatlán and Torreón as well as the Territorial Prelature of El Salto.^[1][2]

The diocese had been erected in 1620 as the diocese for the entire northern area of New Spain and is considered a mother diocese-Sonora, Archdiocese of Santa Fe and Chihuahua were formed from Durango as population expanded in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

Diocese of Durango

Erected: 28 September 1620

• Gonzalo Hernandez y Hermosillo y Gonzalez, O.S.A. (12 Oct 1620 – 28 Jan 1631 Died)^[3]
• Alfonso de Franco y Luna (7 Jun 1632 – 30 May 1639 Appointed, Bishop of La Paz)^[4]
• Francisco Diego Díaz de Quintanilla y de Hevía y Valdés, O.S.B. (8 Aug 1639 – 14 May 1655 Appointed, Bishop of Antequera, Oaxaca)^[5]
• Pedro de Barrientos Lomelin (31 May 1655 – 27 Dec 1658 Died)^[6]
• Juan Aguirre y Gorozpe (17 Nov 1659 – 21 Sep 1671 Died)^[7]
• Juan de Ortega Cano Montañez y Patiño (16 Apr 1674 – 9 Sep 1675 Appointed, Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala)
• Bartolomé Garcia de Escañuela, O.F.M. (16 Nov 1676 – 20 Nov 1684 Died)
• Manuel de Herrera, O.F.M. (13 May 1686 – 31 Jan 1689 Died)
• García Felipe de Legazpi y Velasco Altamirano y Albornoz (27 Aug 1691 – 8 Aug 1701 Appointed, Bishop of Michoacán)
• Manuel de Escalante Colombres y Mendoza (3 Oct 1701 – 19 May 1704 Appointed, Bishop of Michoacán)^[8]
• Ignacio Diez de la Barrera y Bastida (16 Nov 1705 – 20 Sep 1709 Died)^[9]
• Pedro de Tapiz y Garcia (26 Feb 1714 – 13 Apr 1722 Died)
• Benito Crespo y Monroy, O.S. (9 Oct 1722 – 20 Jan 1734 Confirmed, Bishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles))
• Martín de Elizacoechea (27 Jul 1735 – 8 Mar 1745 Confirmed, Bishop of Michoacán)
• Pedro Anselmo Sánchez de Tagle (10 Apr 1747 – 26 Sep 1757 Appointed, Bishop of Michoacán)
• Pedro Zamorana Romezal (19 Dec 1757 – 21 Dec 1768 Died)
• José Vicente Díaz Bravo, O. Carm. (20 Nov 1769 – 24 Apr 1772 Died)
• Antonio Macarulla Minguilla de Aguilain (14 Dec 1772 – 12 Jun 1781 Died)
• Esteban Lorenzo de Tristán y Esmenota (15 Dec 1783 – 17 Jun 1793 Appointed, Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco)
• José Joaquín Granados y Gálvez, O.F.M. (21 Feb 1794 – 19 Aug 1794 Died)^[10]
• Francisco Gabriel de Olivares y Benito (22 Feb 1795 – 26 Feb 1812 Died)
• Juan Francisco Castañiza Larrea y Gonzalez de Agüero (18 Dec 1815 – 29 Oct 1825 Died)
• José Antonio Laureano de Zubiría y Escalante (28 Feb 1831 – 28 Nov 1863 Died)
• José Vicente Salinas e Infanzón (22 Jun 1868 – 9 Jan 1894 Died)

Archdiocese of Durango

Elevated: 23 June 1891

• Santiago de Zubiría y Manzanera (18 Mar 1895 – 26 Jan 1909 Died)
• Francisco de Paula Mendoza y Herrera (7 Aug 1909 – 23 Jul 1923 Died)
• José María González y Valencia (24 Mar 1924 – 28 Jan 1959 Died)
• Lucio Torreblanca y Tapia (25 May 1959 – 23 Aug 1961 Died)
• Antonio López Aviña (14 Dec 1961 – 4 Mar 1993 Retired)
• José Trinidad Medel Pérez (4 Mar 1993 – 5 Jun 2002 Resigned)
• Héctor González Martínez (11 Feb 2003 – 26 Sep 2014 Retired)
• José Antonio Fernández Hurtado (26 Sep 2014 – 25 Jan 2019 Appointed, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla, México)
• Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez (21 Sep 2019 - )

• José María González y Valencia (1922–1924), appointed Archbishop here
• Francisco Ferreira Arreola (1957–1960), appointed Bishop of Texcoco, México
• Rafael Barraza Sánchez (1979–1981), appointed Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa
• Manuel Mireles Vaquera (1982–1988), appointed Coadjutor Prelate of El Salto, Durango
• José Andrés Corral Arredondo (1989–1992), appointed Bishop of Parral, Chihuahua
• Juan de Dios Caballero Reyes (1993–2008)
• Enrique Sánchez Martínez (2008–2015), appointed Bishop of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

• Nicolás Pérez Gavilán y Echeverría, appointed Bishop of Chihuahua in 1902
• Norberto Rivera Carrera, appointed Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla in 1985; future Cardinal

• Archbishop: Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez
• Archbishop Emeritus: Héctor González Martínez
• Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus: Juan de Dios Caballero Reyes

• List of Roman Catholic archdioceses in México

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Durango.

v t e Catholic Church in Mexico
Catholic Bishops Conference of Mexico
Timeline	History History of the Catholic Church in Mexico Contemporary Pastoral Visits (Pope Francis)
Archdioceses	Archdiocese of Acapulco Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca Archdiocese of Chihuahua Archdiocese of Durango Archdiocese of Guadalajara Archdiocese of Hermosillo Archdiocese of Jalapa (Xalapa) Archdiocese of León Archdiocese of Mexico Archdiocese of Monterrey Archdiocese of Morelia Archdiocese of Puebla de los Angeles Archdiocese of San Luis Potosí Archdiocese of Tijuana Archdiocese of Toluca Archdiocese of Tlalnepantla Archdiocese of Tulancingo Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutiérrez Archdiocese of Yucatán
Dioceses	Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano Diocese of Tlapa Diocese of Puerto Escondido Diocese of Tehuantepec Diocese of Tuxtepec Prelature of Huautla Prelature of Mixes Diocese of Ciudad Juárez Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera Diocese of Nuevo Casas Grandes Diocese of Parral Diocese of Tarahumara Diocese of Mazatlán Diocese of Torreón Prelature of El Salto Diocese of Aguascalientes Diocese of Autlán Diocese of Ciudad Guzmán Diocese of Colima Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos Diocese of Tepic Prelature of Jesús María del Nayar Diocese of Ciudad Obregón Diocese of Culiacán Diocese of Nogales Diocese of Coatzacoalcos Diocese of Córdoba Diocese of Orizaba Diocese of Papantla Diocese of San Andrés Tuxtla Diocese of Tuxpan Diocese of Veracruz Diocese of Celaya Diocese of Irapuato Diocese of Querétaro Diocese of Atlacomulco de Fabela Diocese of Cuernavaca Diocese of Ciudad Victoria Diocese of Linares Diocese of Matamoros Diocese of Nuevo Laredo Diocese of Piedras Negras Diocese of Saltillo Diocese of Tampico Diocese of Apatzingan Diocese of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas Diocese of Tacámbaro Diocese of Zamora Diocese of Huajuapan de León Diocese of Tehuacán Diocese of Tlaxcala Diocese of Ciudad Valles Diocese of Matehuala Diocese of Zacatecas Diocese of Ensenada Diocese of La Paz en la Baja California Sur Diocese of Mexicali Diocese of Cuautitlán Diocese of Ecatepec Diocese of Netzahualcóyotl Diocese of Texcoco Diocese of Valle de Chalco Diocese of Huejutla Diocese of Tula Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas Diocese of Tapachula Diocese of Campeche Diocese of Tabasco Prelature of Cancún-Chetumal
Prelates	(TBA)
Saints	St. Felipe de Jesús, Franciscan cleric St. Peter Baptist, Franciscan priest St. Mateo Correa Magallanes St. Atilano Cruz Alvarado St. José María Robles Hurtado St. Toribio Romo González St. Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo St. José Maria de Yermo y Parres St. Miguel Pro St. Anacleto González Flores St. José Sánchez del Río St. Rafael Guízar y Valencia
Religious	Priests and brothers Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl Sisters La Merced Cloister University of the Cloister of Sor Juana
Devotions	Jesus (TBA) Marian Our Lady of Guadalupe (TBA)
Culture	Christmas Nochebuena Navidad Holy Week Fasting and abstinence Others (TBA)
Catholicism portal Mexico portal

24°01′22″N 104°39′14″W / 24.0228°N 104.6540°W / 24.0228; -104.6540