Jurisdiction: | Diocese |
Puerto Escondido | |
Latin: | Dioecesis Portus Abditi |
Country: | Mexico |
Province: | Antequera |
Catholics: | 423,000[1] |
Denomination: | Catholic Church |
Sui Iuris Church: | Latin Church |
Rite: | Roman Rite |
Established: | November 8, 2003[2] |
Bishop: | Florencio Armando Colín Cruz Bishop of Puerto Escondido |
Map: | Roman Catholic Diocese of Puerto Escondido in Mexico.jpg |
The Diocese of Puerto Escondido (Latin: Dioecesis Portus Abditi) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera.
On 31 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Pedro Vázquez Villalobos as Bishop of Puerto Escondido.[3] The diocese's episcopal see is Puerto Escondido.