Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara

Archdiocese of Guadalajara Archidioecesis Guadalaiarensis Arquidiócesis de Guadalajara
Catedral de la Asunción de María Santísima
Location
Country	Mexico
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Guadalajara
Statistics
Area	8,044 sq mi (20,830 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 6,773,000 6,164,000 (91%)
Parishes	419
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	13 July 1548 (476 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral de la Asunción de María Santísima
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Francisco Robles Ortega
Auxiliary Bishops	Héctor López Alvarado Juan Manuel Muñoz Curiel, O.F.M. Engelberto Polino Sánchez Manuel González Villaseñor Ramón Salazar Estrada
Bishops emeritus	Juan Sandoval Íñiguez Miguel Romano Gómez Juan Humberto Gutiérrez Valencia[1]
Map
Website
arquidiocesisgdl.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara (Latin: Archidioecesis Guadalaiarensis) is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church based in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It currently covers an area of 20,827 km² (8,044 Square Miles). The diocese was erected on 13 July 1548 on territory split off from then Diocese of Michoacán, elevated to Archdiocese on 26 January 1863,^[2][3] and is the Metropolitan see of the suffragan sees of Aguascalientes, Autlán, Ciudad Guzmán, Colima, Jesús Maria del Nayar (a Territorial Prelature), San Juan de los Lagos and Tepic.