title: Roman Catholic Diocese of Apatzingan
text: # Roman Catholic Diocese of Apatzingan
  
  The Diocese of Apatzingan (Latin: Dioecesis Apatzinganiensis) 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 Morelia. Its cathedra is found within the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, in the episcopal see of Apatzingan, Michoacán.
  
  ## History
  
  The Diocese of Apatzingan was erected on 30 April 1962. Along with the Diocese of Ciudad Altamirano, it lost territory in 1985 to form the Diocese of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas.
  
  ## Ordinaries
  
  * Victorino Alvarez Tena (1962 -1974), appointed Bishop of Celaya, Guanajuato
  * José Fernández Arteaga (1974 -1980), appointed Bishop of Colima
  * Miguel Patiño Velázquez, M.S.F. (1981 -2014)
  * Cristóbal Ascencio García (2014 - )
  
  ## External links and references
  
  * "Diocese of Apatzingan". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
  
  19°05′10″N 102°21′14″W﻿ / ﻿19.0862°N 102.3540°W﻿ / 19.0862; -102.3540
  
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