Roman Catholic Diocese of Colima

Diocese of Colima
Diocese of Colima ; Dioecesis Colimensis ; Diócesis de Colima
	File:Basílica Menor de Colima.jpg Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Guadalajara
Metropolitan	Colima, Colima
Statistics
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Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2006); 649,739; 591,262 (91%)
Parishes	52
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	11 December 1881 (142 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Marcelino Hernández Rodríguez
Metropolitan Archbishop	Francisco Robles Ortega
Emeritus Bishops	Rogelio Sánchez González, Gilberto Valbuena Sánchez, José Luis Amezcua Melgoza
Website
	www.diocesisdecolima.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Colima (Latin: Dioecesis Colimensis) (erected 11 December 1881) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara.

On Monday, November 11, 2013, Pope Francis named Bishop Marcelino Hernández Rodríguez, until then the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orizaba (based in Orizaba, Mexico) as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Colima, replacing the Bishop José Luis Amezcua Melgoza, who submitted his resignation at the age of 75 as is usual.

Territorial losses

Date	Reason
28 January 1961	to form the Diocese of Autlán
13 January 1962	to form the Territorial Prelature of Jesús María (del Nayar)
30 April 1962	to form the Diocese of Apatzingan
25 March 1972	to form the Diocese of Ciudad Guzmán
25 March 1972	to form the Diocese of San Juan de los Lagos

Francisco Melitón Vargas y Gutiérrez (1883-1888)
Francisco de Paula Díaz y Montes (1889-1891)
Atenógenes Silva y Álvarez Tostado (1892-1900)
José Amador Velasco y Peña (1903-1949)
Ignacio de Alba y Hernández (1949-1967)
Leonardo Viera Contreras (1967-1972)
Rogelio Sánchez González (1972-1980) – Bishop Emeritus
José Fernández Arteaga (1980-1988)
Gilberto Valbuena Sánchez (1989-2005) – Bishop Emeritus
José Luis Amezcua Melgoza (2005-2013) - Bishop Emeritus
Marcelino Hernández Rodríguez (2013–present)