Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregon (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregon (erected 20 June 1959) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo. Along with the Archdiocese of Chihuahua and the Diocese of Ciudad Juarez, it lost territory in 1966 to form the Territorial Prelature of Madera. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua (Latin name: Chihuahuensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico. Erected in 1891 from the Diocese of Durango, the diocese consisted of the State of Chihuahua in its entirety. The Durango Diocese had been erected in 1620 as the diocese for the entire northern area of New Spain and is considered a mother diocese-Sonora, St Louis, New Mexico and Chihuahua were formed from Durango as population expanded in the 18th and 19th centuries.