Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos

Roman Catholic diocese in Mexico

Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis a Lacubus Diócesis de San Juan de los Lagos

Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos
Location
Country	Mexico
Territory	State of Jalisco,
Ecclesiastical province	Archdiocese of Guadalajara
Metropolitan	San Juan de los Lagos
Statistics
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 1,115,000 1,084,000 (97.2%)
Parishes	80
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	January 25, 1941
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of San Juan de los Lagos
Patron saint	Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Sede vacante
Bishops emeritus	Felipe Salazar Villagrana
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis a Lacubus) (erected 25 March 1972) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara. It encompasses some of the surrounding cities in the Mexican state of Jalisco, including Lagos de Moreno, Tepatitlán and Arandas.

Bishops

Ordinaries

Francisco Javier Nuño y Guerrero (1972 - 1980); Archbishop (personal title)
José López Lara (1981 - 1987)
José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco (1988 - 1999)
Javier Navarro Rodríguez (1999 - 2007), appointed Bishop of Zamora, Michoacán
Felipe Salazar Villagrana (2008 - 2016)
Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe (2016 - 2022), appointed Archbishop of San Luis Potosí

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

José María de la Torre Martín, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco in 2002
Juan Navarro Castellanos, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Acapulco, Guerrero in 2004
Raúl Gómez González, appointed Bishop of Tenancingo, México in 2009
Pedro Vázquez Villalobos, appointed Bishop of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca in 2012
Gerardo Díaz Vázquez, appointed Bishop of Tacámbaro, Michoacán in 2014
Cristóbal Ascencio García, appointed Bishop of Apatzingán, Michoacán in 2014