The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic ()) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guadalajara in western Mexico.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral de la Purísima Concepción, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in Tepic, the capital of Nayarit state. It also has a Minor Basilica: Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Talpa, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, in Talpa de Allende, Jalisco.
Statistics As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,168,480 Catholics (88.1% of 1,325,985 total) on 22,777 km² in 92 parishes and 36 missions with 214 priests (207 diocesan, 7 religious), 205 lay religious (11 brothers, 194 sisters) and 54 seminarians.
History It was erected 23 June 1891 as Diocese of Tepic / Tepicen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Guadalajara.
Bishops (all Roman Rite)
Episcopal ordinaries Suffragan Bishops of Tepic Ignacio Díaz y Macedo (1893.01.19 – death 1905.06.14) Andrés Segura y Domínguez (1906.08.06 – death 1918.08.13) Manuel Azpeitia Palomar (1919.08.10 – death 1935.03.01) Anastasio Hurtado y Robles (1935.12.21 – retired 1970.07.13) Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera (1971.05.14 – 1980.05.08), appointed Bishop of Tlalnepantla, México Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota (1981.01.12 – retired 2008.02.21) Ricardo Watty Urquidi, M.Sp.S. (2008.02.21 – death 2011.11.01) Luis Artemio Flores Calzada (30 March 2012 – retired 2025.08.28) Engelberto Polino Sánchez (2025.08.28 – Present)
Auxiliary bishop José Manuel Piña Torres (1958-1970), resigned
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops Mario Espinosa Contreras, appointed Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla in 1996 Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District in 2009
See also List of Catholic dioceses in Mexico Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Tepic
References
Sources and external links
GCatholic, with Google map and satellite photo - data for all sections Tehuantepec - Catholic Encyclopedia article