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Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez

Archbishop of Durango

Archbishop

1955

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Ordained

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Consecrated Bishop

Durango

Diocese

Mexico

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The Life

Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez was born on 23 July 1955 in Magdalena de Kino, in the Archdiocese of Hermosillo, the son of Valentín Armendáriz Villalobos and Francisca Jiménez Durón. He studied in the seminaries of Hermosillo and Guadalajara, and was ordained a priest on 11 September 1982 by Archbishop Carlos Quintero Arce at the church of San Martín de Porres in Magdalena de Kino, incardinated for Hermosillo. He took a licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and a diploma in Oriental Biblical Sciences at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem.

As a priest of Hermosillo he served as collaborating vicar at Purísima Concepción, Nogales, Sonora; as director and teacher of the Minor Seminary from 1986 to 1990; as teacher and formator of the Major Seminary of Hermosillo for ten years, as prefect of studies and discipline, teaching Dogma and Sacred Scripture for twenty years; as chaplain of the El Llano chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe for ten years; as diocesan spiritual assistant and regional coordinator of the Cursillos de Cristiandad from 1985 to 2001; as coordinator of the Diocesan Council of Laity; as founder, director and teacher of the Catholic Biblical Institute of Hermosillo from 1988 to 2004; as archdiocesan coordinator of Biblical Pastoral; as member and secretary of the Presbyteral Council and member of the Pastoral Council; as parish priest of San Antonio de Padua and Espíritu Santo in Hermosillo; and as Vicar General of Hermosillo. In the Episcopal Conference of Mexico he served on the Permanent Council from 2006 to 2009, took part in the Fifth CELAM Conference at Aparecida in 2007 and in the Synod on the Word of God in October 2008, served on the Superior Council of the Pontifical University of Mexico from 2007 to 2009 and on the CEM Presidency Council from 2009 to 2012, headed the Laity Commission in the triennia 2012-2015 and 2016-2018, and was President of the Episcopal Commission for Prophetic Pastoral Care in the triennium 2018-2021.

He was elected Bishop of Matamoros on 4 January 2005, and was consecrated bishop on 23 February 2005. He was transferred to Querétaro on 20 April 2011 and took possession as ninth Bishop of Querétaro on 16 June 2011. Pope Francis appointed him Archbishop of Durango on 21 September 2019, and he took possession on 21 November 2019. At the Querétaro press conference announcing the Durango appointment he said he would keep administering Querétaro until about mid-November; under canon 418 section 1 the Querétaro tenure closes at the Durango possession, not at the end of that interim administration.

Major Works & Initiatives

Alocución en su toma de posesión

Possession address as ninth Bishop of Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, 16 June 2011, in which he states he had already taken possession that afternoon.

Exhortación Pastoral con ocasión del Año de la Fe

Pastoral exhortation for the Year of Faith, Querétaro, for the year beginning 11 October 2012.

Carta Pastoral sobre la sinodalidad

Pastoral letter on synodality for the diocesan phase of the Synod, signed at the episcopal see of Durango, 15 November 2021. The letter refers to his first Durango pastoral letter, 'Para eso he venido' (Mk 1:38), whose full text was not located; it is not listed separately.

In His Own Words

vengo a Querétaro como su discípulo y misionero, sin otra pretensión que la de cumplir el mandato del Señor, que nos llama a todos a evangelizar.

In his possession address as ninth Bishop of Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, 16 June 2011, Diocese of Querétaro.

Con gran esperanza comparto esta Carta Pastoral sobre la sinodalidad, que quiere ser una orientación en este camino sinodal en nuestra Arquidiócesis de Durango.

In his Carta Pastoral sobre la sinodalidad, Archdiocese of Durango, 15 November 2021.

The Old Mass, See by See

Durango2019-11-21 – presentNo act of his own

What he inheritedNo provision for the 1962 Missal inherited from José Antonio Fernández Hurtado is established in the record.

Since the SSPX decree of 2 July 2026: No statement recorded as of 2026-10-28.

Reviewed 2026-10-28Confidence: medium

Querétaro2011-06-16 – 2019-11-21

Held before Traditionis Custodes; no record on the old Mass falls in this tenure.

Matamoros-Reynosa2005-02-23 – 2011-06-16

Held before Traditionis Custodes; no record on the old Mass falls in this tenure.

Domus Dei’s Verdict

The Bishop & the Mass of Ages

No governing act of his own found

References & Further Reading

Rinunce e nomine, 21 September 2019 — Holy See Press Office · 2019Italian bulletin. CV: born Magdalena de Kino, Archdiocese of Hermosillo, 23 July 1955; seminaries of Hermosillo and Guadalajara; priest 11 September 1982, incardinated Hermosillo; licentiate in Sacred Scripture, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome; diploma in Oriental Biblical Sciences, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem; elected Bishop of Matamoros 4 January 2005, consecrated 23 February 2005; transferred to Querétaro 20 April 2011; CEM President of the Episcopal Commission for Prophetic Pastoral Care 2018-2021; appointed Archbishop of Durango 21 September 2019.

Nuevo nombramiento: Arzobispo de la Arquidiócesis de Durango — Diocese of Querétaro · 2019Press-conference biography, 21 September 2019. Parents Valentín Armendáriz Villalobos and Francisca Jiménez Durón; ordination conferred by Archbishop Carlos Quintero Arce, 11 September 1982, Magdalena de Kino, church of San Martín de Porres; priestly offices and CEM roles; Querétaro possession 16 June 2011; at the press conference he said he would keep administering Querétaro until about mid-November 2019 before taking possession in Durango.

Mensaje en su toma de posesión — Diocese of Querétaro · 2011Possession address dated Santiago de Querétaro, 16 June 2011; opens 'habiendo ya tomado posesión como noveno Obispo de la Diócesis de Querétaro'.

Exhortación Pastoral con ocasión del Año de la Fe — Diocese of Querétaro · 2012Pastoral exhortation for the Year of Faith beginning 11 October 2012.

Carta Pastoral sobre la sinodalidad — Archdiocese of Durango · 2021Signed at the episcopal see of Durango, 15 November 2021, for the diocesan phase of the Synod. The letter refers to his first Durango pastoral letter, 'Para eso he venido' (Mk 1:38); its full text was not located. The PDF text layer garbles his surname at the signature line; the heading and site context identify it as his.

Gobernador y miles de feligreses reciben al nuevo Arzobispo de Durango — Government of Durango · 2019Published 21 November 2019; the governor attended his toma de posesión that day with thousands of the faithful. Corroborates the Durango possession beyond the roster's spine-only citation.

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