SINALOA, Diocese of - City and diocese of the same-named State in Mexico (North America).
Over an area of 58,488 sq. km., it comprises a population of 550,000 inhabitants, of whom 495,000 are Catholics distributed in 25 parishes served by 48 diocesan priests and 2 regular priests; it has a seminary; 2 male religious communities and 21 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1932, p. 380). The diocese was created by Pope Leo XIII on 27 January 1884 as a suffragan of Durango.
BIBL.: C. Crivelli, s. V. in Cath. Enc., XIV, pp. 12-13;
anon., s. V. ENOCH. Eur. Am., 56 (1927), pp. 475-78. Enrico Josi