Territorial Prelature of Madera
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Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera Dioecesis Cuauhtemocensis-Materiensis Diócesis de Cuauhtémoc-Madera |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Mexico |
| Ecclesiastical province | Province of Chihuahua |
| Metropolitan | Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 14,447 sq mi (37,420 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2006) 383,374 332,804 (86.8%) |
| Parishes | 26 |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 25 April 1966 (51 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St. Anthony |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Juan Guillermo López Soto |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Constancio Miranda Weckmann |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera (Latin: Dioecesis Cuauhtemocensis–Materiensis) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chihuahua (northern Mexico).
Its catedral episcopal see is the Catedral de San Antonio, dedicated to Saint Anthony, in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua State.
It also has a Co-Cathedral, the former see of the territorial prelature of Madera : Cocatedral de San Pedro, dedicated to Saint Peter, in Madera, also in Chihuahua State.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 353,296 Catholics (86.8% of 406,980 total) on 37,405 km² in 26 parishes with 42 priests (32 diocesan, 10 religious), 67 lay religious (10 brothers, 57 sisters) and 9 seminarians.
It was erected as the Territorial Prelature of Madera on 25 April 1966, on territories split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chihuahua, Diocese of Ciudad Juárez and Diocese of Ciudad Obregón.
Its name was changed after its new see when it was elevated to bishopric as Diocese of Cuauhtémoc-Madera (a double name reflecting new and former see) on 17 November 1995, having gained more territory, again from the Archdiocese of Chihuahua, which became its Metropolitan.
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