Bishop Mario Espinosa Contreras

Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Nov 1949		Born
14 Jul 1973	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tepic, Nayarit, México
2 Apr 1996	46.3	Appointed	Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla, México
11 May 1996	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tehuacán, Puebla, México
3 Mar 2005	55.2	Appointed	Bishop of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

MicroData Summary
Mario Espinosa Contreras
Bishop Mario Espinosa Contreras
(born 22 Nov 1949)
Bishop of Mazatlán

Ad Limina - September 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Tepic

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Mazatlán.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Adolfo Antonio Cardinal Suárez Rivera †
Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Norberto Rivera Carrera
Archbishop of México, Federal District
Bishop Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota †
Bishop of Tepic, Nayarit

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Adolfo Antonio Cardinal Suárez Rivera † (1971)
Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León
Archbishop Carlo Martini † (1961)
Titular Archbishop of Abari
Archbishop Antonio Samorè † (1950)
Titular Archbishop of Ternobus
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda (1997)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1898764

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 146, Number 12,751
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 193, Deceased Cardinals (back)

Home | Countries | Religious Men Women | Popes | Holy See | Roman Curia | Cardinals by Rank
Bishops: All | Living | Deceased | Youngest | Oldest | Cardinal Electors
Dioceses: All | Current Only | Titular | Vacant | Structured View
Events: Overview | Recent | by Date | by Year | Necrology
Ad Limina | Conclaves | Consistories | Councils
Eastern Catholic Churches

About Catholic-Hierarchy

Terminology/Site Help

Copyright David M. Cheney, 1996-2026
Code: web_b, v3.4.3, 19 May 2025; Data: 29 Aug 2026

✠