COLIMA, Diocese of. - In the Republic of Mexico, suffragan of Guadalajara, erected by Leo XIII on 11 Dec. 1896, with the constitution Si principum, by dismemberment of the archdiocese of Guadalajara.

It comprises the State of C. and the southern part of the State of Jalisco, with an area of 26,816 sq. km., and a population, predominantly mestizo, of 260,000 inhabitants, of whom 259,000 are Catholics, divided into 30 parishes with 75 diocesan priests and a minor seminary. The episcopal see is C., capital of the State, founded in 1522 by Gonzalo de Sandoval under the name of S. Sebastián.

Notable buildings from colonial times are: the convent and church of La Merced, the church of Jesús, the hospital of S. Juan de Dios; the Cathedral is the most notable religious construction, built in the diocese at the end of the last century.

Toward the end of the 18th century, Hidalgo y Costilla, initiator of the movement for Mexico's emancipation from Spain, was curate of C. d.

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BIBL.: G. Gutiérrez, Apuntamientos de historia eclesiástica mexicana, Mexico City 1917, (see index); M. Cuevas, Historia de la Iglesia en México, 3rd ed., El Paso 1928 (see index).

Francesco Aguilera

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