Diocese of Tepic
Dioecesis Tepicensis
Diócesis de Tepic
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Catedral de la Purísima Concepción
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| Location | |
| Country | Mexico |
| Ecclesiastical province | Province of Guadalajara |
| Metropolitan | Guadalajara |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 8,797 sq mi (22,780 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2006) 1,139,584 1,107,800 (97.2%) |
| Parishes | 78 |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 23 June 1891 (133 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Luis Artemio Flores Calzada |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Francisco Robles Ortega |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tepic (Latin: Dioecesis Tepicensis)) 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.
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.
It was erected 23 June 1891 as Diocese of Tepic / Tepicen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Guadalajara.
(all Roman Rite)
