TEPIC, Diocese of. - City and diocese of Mexico in the State of Nayarit, which comprises the entire territory of Nayarit and some parishes of the State of Jalisco.

It has an area of 32,244 sq. km. with a population of 307,000 inhabitants, of whom 300,000 are Catholics; it has 20 parishes served by 72 diocesan priests and 7 regulars; it has a seminary; 3 male religious communities and 8 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 420).

The province of Nayarit, inhabited by tribes of Indians, was visited in 1668 by the Franciscans J. Caballero and Juan B. Ramirez, who tried in vain to bring Christianity there. In 1711 Father Margil of the convent of Zacatecas again attempted to reach the region. Finally in 1716 the Jesuit Thomas de Solchaga succeeded in penetrating those mountains and in sowing there the first seeds of Christianity. From that time the missions gradually began to flourish. Until 1807 the Franciscans administered them. Pope Leo XIII on 23 June 1891 created the diocese of T. as a suffragan of Guadalajara.

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BIBL.: anon., s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., LX, pp. 1111-13; C. Crivelli, s. v. in Cath. Enc., XIV, pp. 513-14.

Enrico Josi

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