Organization
The Catholic Church is the world's largest Christian church, and its largest religious grouping. The 2000 census reported that Mexico had some 101,456,786 Catholics among the population aged five and above, which equates to around 91% of the total population, making it the second largest Roman Catholic country in the world after Brazil. The country is divided into 90 dioceses, and there are 15,700 priests and 46,000 men and women in religious orders. The Metropolitan provinces were rearranged on 25 November 2006:
- Acapulco
- Chilpancingo-Chilapa
- Ciudad Altamirano
- Tlapa
- Antequera, Oaxaca
- Puerto Escondido
- Tehuantepec
- Tuxtepec
- Prelature of Huautla
- Prelature of Mixes
- Chihuahua
- Ciudad Juárez
- Cuauhtémoc-Madera
- Nuevo Casas Grandes
- Parral
- Tarahumara
- Durango
- Gómez Palacio
- Mazatlán
- Torreón
- Prelature of El Salto
- Guadalajara
- Aguascalientes
- Autlán
- Ciudad Guzmán
- Colima
- San Juan de los Lagos
- Tepic
- Prelature of Jesús María
- Hermosillo
- Ciudad Obregón
- Culiacán
- Jalapa (Xalapa)
- Coatzacoalcos
- Córdoba
- Orizaba
- Papantla
- San Andrés Tuxtla
- Tuxpan
- Veracruz
- León
- Celaya
- Irapuato
- Querétaro
- Mexico
- Atlacomulco
- Cuernavaca
- Tenancingo
- Toluca
- Monterrey
- Ciudad Victoria
- Linares
- Matamoros
- Nuevo Laredo
- Piedras Negras
- Saltillo
- Tampico
- Morelia
- Apatzingan
- Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas
- Tacámbaro
- Zamora
- Puebla de los Angeles, Puebla
- Huajuapan de León
- Tehuacán
- Tlaxcala
- San Luis Potosí
- Ciudad Valles
- Matehuala
- Zacatecas
- Tijuana
- La Paz
- Mexicali
- Ensenada
- Tlalnepantla
- Cuautitlán
- Ecatepec
- Netzahualcóyotl
- Teotihuacan
- Texcoco
- Valle de Chalco
- Tulancingo
- Huejutla
- Tula
- Tuxtla Gutiérrez
- San Cristóbal de Las Casas
- Tapachula
- Yucatán
- Campeche
- Tabasco
- Prelature of Cancún-Chetumal
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