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On August 9, 2000, he was installed as its first bishop. [4] [3] In 2002, a priest from New York City was arrested in Laredo on rape charges out of New York. The district attorney of Kings County in New York said that the Diocese of Laredo was "less than satisfactory" in cooperating with their investigation. Tamayo did not explain the ...
On July 3, 2000, the Diocese of Laredo was created by Pope John Paul II, with territory taken from the Diocese of Corpus Christi and the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The pope named Auxiliary Bishop James Tamayo of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston as the first bishop of Laredo. [2]
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 (2016–present) Diocese of Dallas Plácido Rodriguez, CMF
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.
Gustavo Rodríguez Vega was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, on 7 March 1955, [1] the son of Manuel Rodríguez Mora and Blanca Lilia Vega de Rodríguez. [2] He entered the local seminary on 2 September 1970, completing his high school education and then his work in philosophy from 1973 to 1976 and in theology from 1976 to 1980. [3]
Each color on the map represents an ecclesiastical province. The divisions in each province show the archdiocese and its individual dioceses. The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Enrique San Pedro (1986–1991), appointed Coadjutor Bishop and later Bishop of Brownsville; Curtis J. Guillory, SVD (1988–2000), appointed Bishop of Beaumont; James Anthony Tamayo (1993–2000), appointed Bishop of Laredo; Vincent M. Rizzotto (2001–2006) Joe S. Vásquez (2002–2010), appointed Bishop of Austin; George Sheltz (2012–2021)
Benito Crespo y Monroy, O.S. (9 Oct 1722 – 20 Jan 1734 Confirmed, Bishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles)) Martín de Elizacoechea (27 Jul 1735 – 8 Mar 1745 Confirmed, Bishop of Michoacán) Pedro Anselmo Sánchez de Tagle (10 Apr 1747 – 26 Sep 1757 Appointed, Bishop of Michoacán) Pedro Zamorana Romezal (19 Dec 1757 – 21 Dec 1768 Died)