Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XI, 1953 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Tabasco, Diocese of

TABASCO, DIOCESI DI

By Enrico Josi

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Also known as: Italian: Villa Filippo II

TABASCO, Diocese of. - City on the Gulf of Mexico coast and diocese of the State of T. in the Republic of Mexico.

It has an area of 30,680 sq km with a population of 385,086 inhabitants, of whom 322,627 are Catholics. The diocese has 8 parishes, served by 10 diocesan priests and 1 regular; it has a seminary, 4 male religious communities and 4 female (Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 413). The bishop resides in S. Juan Batista, founded in 1598 under the name of "Villa Filippo II", known by the name of "Villa Hermosa" until 1826, the year in which it assumed its current name.

The diocese was created on 25 May 1880 by Pope Leo XIII, by dismemberment of the dioceses of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Yucatán. It was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Mexico until 1891; from 1891 to 1906 it became a suffragan of Oaxaca, and finally from 1906 of the diocese of Yucatán.

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BIBL.: C. Crivelli, s. v. in Cath. Euc., XIV, col. 423; anon., s. v. in Euc. Eur. Am., LVIII, pp. 1375-77.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), col. 1676.

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Josi, Enrico. “Tabasco, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 1676. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/tabasco-diocesi-di.

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Josi, Enrico. “Tabasco, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 1676. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/tabasco-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Tabasco, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XI},
  pages     = {1676},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
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