Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Leon (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Leon (Latin: Archidioecesis Leonensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or Metropolitan diocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in the Mexican city of Leon, Guanajuato. It currently covers an area of 41,940 km, and has a population of 6,500,000, including the states of Guanajuato and Queretaro. It was created as the Diocese of Leon on January 26, 1863 by Pope Pius IX, and elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Benedict XVI on November 25, 2006, with the suffragan sees of Celaya, Irapuato, and Queretaro. The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Catedral Basilica de Nuestra Senora de la Luz. The current Archbishop of Leon is His Excellency Jose Martin Rabago, appointed by Pope John Paul II on June 13, 1995.