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Archdiocese of Toluca Archidioecesis Tolucensis Arquidiócesis de Toluca
Catedral de San José de Nazaret
Location
Country	Mexico
Metropolitan	Toluca
Statistics
Area	1,939 sq mi (5,020 km)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 3,318,000 3,105,000 (93.6%)
Parishes	142
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	4 June 1950 (74 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Joseph of Nazareth
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Raúl Gómez González
Auxiliary Bishops	Maximino Martínez Miranda
Bishops emeritus	Francisco Javier Chavolla Ramos
Map
Website
www.diocesistoluca.org.mx

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toluca (Latin: Archidioecesis Tolucensis) (erected 4 June 1950 as a diocese and 28 September 2019 as an archdiocese) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church. Along with the Dioceses of Acapulco, Chilapa and Tacámbaro, it lost territory when the Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano was erected in 1964. It further lost territory in 1984 with the formation of the Diocese of Atlacomulco. On 26 November 2009, it lost territory again when Pope Benedict XVI created another suffragan diocese for the Archdiocese of Mexico, the Diocese of Tenancingo.

On 28 September 2019, Pope Francis changed the status of the diocese to that of a metropolitan archdiocese and assigned to it three suffragan dioceses that until then were suffragans of the Archdiocese of Mexico: Atlacomulco, Tenancingo, and Cuernavaca.

Ordinaries

Archbishops

• Arturo Vélez Martínez (1951–1979)
• Alfredo Torres Romero (1980–1995)
• Francisco Robles Ortega (1996–2003) appointed Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León; elevated to Cardinal in 2008
• Francisco Javier Chavolla Ramos (2003–2022)
• Raúl Gómez González (2022–present)

Auxiliary bishop

• José Francisco Robles Ortega (1991–1996), appointed bishop here; later cardinal
• Maximino Martínez Miranda (2017–present)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, appointed Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas in 1991, later cardinal
• José Miguel Ángel Giles Vázquez, appointed Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero in 2004
• Adolfo Miguel Castaño Fonseca, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of México, Federal District in 2010
• Juan Odilón Martínez García, appointed Bishop of Atlacomulco, México in 2010
• Luis Manuel López Alfaro (priest here, 1991–2004), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas in 2020

Episcopal See

• Toluca, State of México

References

1. "Resignations and Appointments, 28.09.2019" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 28 September 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

External links and references

• "Diocese of Toluca". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-07.

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