The Diocese of Tampico () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey. It was erected 12 March 1870 as the Diocese of Ciudad Victoria-Tamaulipas and renamed 25 February 1958. The original seat became the new Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Victoria in 1964.
Bishops Ordinaries Francisco de la Concepción Ramírez y González, O.F.M. (1861–1869) Jose Maria Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregón (1871–1879), appointed Bishop of Linares o Nueva León, Nuevo León Giuseppe Ignazio Eduardo Sánchez Camacho (1880–1896) Filemón Fierro y Terán (1897–1905) José de Jesús Guzmán y Sánchez (1909–1914) José Guadalupe Ortíz y López (1919–1923), appointed Bishop of Chilapa, Guerrero Serafín María Armora y González (1923–1955) Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada (1956–1967), appointed Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca; future Cardinal Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez (1968–1987), appointed Bishop of San Luis Potosí Rafael Gallardo García, O.S.A. (1987–2003) José Luis Dibildox Martínez (2003–2018) José Armando Álvarez Cano (2019–2025) Margarito Salazar Cárdenas (since 2026)
Auxiliary bishop Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada (1952-1956), appointed Bishop here; future Cardinal
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop Roberto Yenny García, appointed Bishop of Ciudad Valles, San Luís Potosí In 2020
Territorial losses Year Along with To form 1922 Diocese of Veracruz-Jalapa Diocese of Papantla 1958 – Diocese of Matamoros 1962 Diocese of HuejutlaDiocese of PapantlaDiocese of Tulancingo Diocese of Tuxpan 1964 Diocese of Matamoros Diocese of Ciudad Victoria
Episcopal See Tampico, Tamaulipas
See also Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Tampico
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