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

Sonora, Diocese of

SONORA, DIOCESI DI

By Enrico Josi

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SONORA, Diocese of. - City and diocese of the state of the same name in Mexico (North America).

It has an area of 180,000 sq km with a population of 400,000 inhabitants, almost all Catholics, distributed in 20 parishes served by 48 diocesan priests; it has 1 seminary and 15 communities of religious women (Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 405). On 7 May 1779 Pius VI erected the city of S. as a diocese, making it a suffragan of the archdiocese of Mexico; in 1863 it became a suffragan of the new archdiocese of Guadalajara. In 1891 Pope Leo XIII, with the bull Illud in primis, separated the diocese from the province of Guadalajara and made it a suffragan of Durango.

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BIBL.: C. Crivelli, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIV, col. 145; anon., s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., LVII (1927), pp. 415-18.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), col. 968.

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Josi, Enrico. “Sonora, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 968. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/sonora-diocesi-di.

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Josi, Enrico. “Sonora, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 968. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/sonora-diocesi-di.

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  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Sonora, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XI},
  pages     = {968},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/sonora-diocesi-di}
}

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