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The Diocese of Laredo (Latin: Dioecesis Laredanus, Spanish: Diócesis de Laredo) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in South Texas in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Antonio The Diocese of Laredo was founded on July 3, 2000.
The Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was established in 1755. Its founding residents wanted a Catholic church for a place of worship. The Bishop of Guadalajara, Francisco de San Buena Ventura, ordered the construction of a small mission chapel in 1760 which was the only place of worship until 1778.
Diocese of El Paso Diocese of Fort Worth: Michael Fors Olson: Bishop of Fort Worth (2014–present) Diocese of Fort Worth Diocese of Laredo: James Anthony Tamayo: Bishop of Laredo (2000–present), former auxiliary bishop of Galveston-Houston (1993-2000) Diocese of Corpus Christi Diocese of Lubbock: Robert Milner Coerver: Bishop of Lubbock ...
Tamayo was ordained a priest at Corpus Christi Cathedral in Corpus Christi by Bishop Thomas Drury for the Diocese of Corpus Christi on July 11, 1976. [3] After his 1976 ordination, the diocese assigned Tamayo as associate pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Corpus Christi along with chaplain to the local branch of the Catholic Daughters of America (Junior Division).
The diocese has the second highest percentage of Catholics to total diocese population in the United States, second only to the Diocese of Laredo. As of 2020, the Diocese of Brownsville comprised 1,171,182 Catholics out of a total population of 1,377,861, or 85.0%. [15]
During the mid-1970s the school was relocated. Through 1999 the school was under the control of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi. In 2000 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Laredo was established and the control of the school transferred to it. St. Augustine School is accredited by the Texas Catholic Conference Education Department. [1]
The Catedral Del Espiritu Santo is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nuevo Laredo. It is located at Paseo Colon Avenue in the heart of the midtown Nuevo Laredo. The first bishop to sit here was Ricardo Watty Urquidi. As of 2000, the cathedral was the mother church for 800,000 Catholics in the diocese. [1] [2] [3]
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