HUAUJÁPAM de LEÓN, DIOCESE OF. — Diocese and city in the State of Oaxaca in Mexico.
It has an area of 22,000 sq. km., with a population of 300,000 inhabitants, of whom 299,950 are Catholic. It comprises 40 parishes served by 75 diocesan priests; a seminary; and 2 women’s religious communities (1948).
The diocese was erected by Pope Leo XIII with the bull *Sedes Apostolica* of 25 April 1902 under the name of Mixtecas. A decree of the Congregation of the Council dated 13 November 1903 changed the name to that of the residential see, H. de L. The first bishop was Msgr. Rafael Amador. It is a suffragan of Puebla.
BIBL.: Acta Pontificia, IV, Rome 1906, pp. 15 ff.; G. Rheinhold, s. V. in Cath. Enc., VII, p. 505; Enc. Eur. Am., XXVIII, p. 497.