The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tapachula is a Latin rite suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. It cathedral Episcopal see is the Catedral de San José, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in Tapachula, Chiapas. Its bishop is Jaime Calderón Calderón.

History

It was erected on 19 June 1957 as Diocese of Tapachula / Tapacolen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from the Diocese of Chiapas and suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca until 25 November 2006.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,488,000 Catholics (83.9% of 1,773,000 total) on 12,244 km² in 47 parishes and 11 missions with 101 priests (90 diocesan, 11 religious), 142 lay religious (11 brothers, 131 sisters) and 66 seminarians.

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