YUCATÁN, ARCHDIOCESE OF. - City and archdiocese in the state of the same name in Mexico (North America).

It has an area of 52,000 sq km with a population of 518,000 inhabitants, of whom 510,000 are Catholics; it has 45 parishes served by 86 diocesan priests and 22 regulars; it has 1 seminary, 4 male religious communities and 11 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 459).

Y. was the first region of Mexico in which the Gospel was preached (16th century). In 1517 Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba founded the first parish there, and Pope Leo X, with the bull Sacri apostolatus ministerio, elevated it to a diocese on 27 Jan. 1518. The first bishop was Msgr. Francisco Toral, who took possession of the diocese on 15 Aug. 1562 and who attended the First and Second Councils of Mexico.

It was a suffragan of Mexico until 1891, when it became a suffragan of the new archdiocese of Oaxaca. On 11 Nov. 1906 Blessed Pius X elevated it to the rank of metropolitan see, assigning to it as suffragans the dioceses of Campeche and Tabasco. The Cathedral is dedicated to St. Ildephonsus.

Bibliography

BIBL.: C. Crivelli, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XV, pp. 737-38. Enrico Josi

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