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Roberto Madrigal Gallegos

Bishop of Tuxpan

Bishop

1967

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Ordained

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Consecrated Bishop

Tuxpan

Diocese

Mexico

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The Life

Roberto Madrigal Gallegos was born on 8 December 1967 in Ejido Iquinuapa, in the diocese of Tabasco, and was ordained a priest on 30 November 1997, incardinated in Tabasco. He studied in the major seminary of Tabasco and obtained a licentiate in spiritual theology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty and Pontifical Institute of Spirituality Teresianum in Rome. As a priest he was a formator and professor of the diocesan seminary, parish priest of two parishes, a member of the presbyteral council, a dean, head of diocesan Caritas, spiritual supervisor of the Chapels of Perpetual Worship, and an episcopal vicar; at his episcopal appointment he was head of the introductory course of the diocesan seminary. He is diocesan clergy of Tabasco; he has no religious congregation and no post-nominal initials.

On 27 February 2021, on the resignation of Juan Navarro Castellanos, he was appointed Bishop of Tuxpan, and he was consecrated bishop on 19 May 2021 FOR Tuxpan, so the tenure codes from consecration under the first-see rule, roster-exact, and no separate installation is established. He was still Bishop of Tuxpan at as_of: he was 58, turning 59 on 8 December 2026, with a GCatholic present-prelates listing updated 22 October 2026 and no resignation acceptance or successor news. In the CEM he is listed in the June 2023 directorio as Responsable of Dimension 18, Cuidado Integral de la Creacion, in the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral Care; that is the pre-November-2024 structure only, because a find for his name on the Prot. 314/24 comunicado for the triennium 2024-2027 returns nothing, checked-and-absent from that document, not no commission ever. The diocese of Tuxpan was erected 9 June 1962, suffragan of Jalapa, with the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, per GCatholic.

The Old Mass, See by See

Tuxpan2021-05-19 – presentNo act of his own

What he inheritedOpen tenure falling entirely inside the Traditionis custodes window; no governing act of his own concerning the 1962 Missal was found for it through as_of, and no statement of his concerning communion with the Society of St. Pius X after the Holy See's 2 July 2026 schism declaration was found. His whole TC window falls inside his own Tuxpan ordinaryship, and his predecessor Juan Navarro Castellanos retired in February 2021, before the TC window, so there are no predecessor TC acts to inherit, and no CEM collective act is attributed to him.

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

Reviewed 2026-10-28Confidence: medium

Domus Dei’s Verdict

The Bishop & the Mass of Ages

No governing act of his own found

References & Further Reading

Resignations and Appointments, 27 February 2021 (bulletin N. 210227b) — Holy See Press Office · 2021PRIMARY, ENGLISH BULLETIN. Accepts the resignation of Juan Navarro Castellanos; appoints 'the Reverend Roberto Madrigal Gallegos, of the clergy of the diocese of Tabasco, until now head of the introductory course of the diocesan seminary,' as bishop of Tuxpan. CV: born 8 December 1967 in Ejido Iquinuapa, diocese of Tabasco (the extraction prints '8 December1967' - the missing space is an artifact; CEM and GCatholic confirm the date); Tabasco major seminary; priest 30 November 1997, incardinated Tabasco; Teresianum spiritual-theology licentiate; offices as in the bio. Parent-opened in full October 2026.

Directorio, 20 June 2023 edition, entry 45 — Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano · 2023PRIMARY-CONFERENCE, WORKER-OPENED BODY, PARENT INDEX-CONFIRMED. Entry 45, OBISPO DE TUXPAN: born 08 December 1967; priest 30 November 1997; episcopal ordination 19 May 2021. The parent's own find on the extraction locates the entry-45 header (L1567), the Cuidado Integral commission listings (L4146, L4363), and the diocese index entry (L4935); the body dates rest on the worker's open but are corroborated by the bulletin (born + priest, parent-opened) and GCatholic (all three, parent-opened), so no date in the dossier rests on the worker alone. This is the roster's from_source for the open tenure.

Diocese of Tuxpan — GCatholicSPINE. Present Prelates: 'Bishop (2021.02.27 - ...): Bishop Roberto Madrigal Gallegos (58)' - the 2021.02.27 is appointment-display, never a tenure date; born 1967.12.08 (Ejido Iquinuapa); priest 1997.11.30; consecrated 2021.05.19; priest of Tabasco 1997.11.30-2021.02.27; diocese erected 9 June 1962, suffragan of Jalapa; Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption; 2022 statistics 19,000 sq km, 62 parishes, 86 diocesan priests. Page last updated 2026.10.22. Parent-opened in full October 2026. The same page's predecessor motto slots ('Duc in altum' for Navarro Castellanos, 'Fortitudo mea Dominus' for Diaz Martinez, 'Gloria Dei vivens homo' for Gasperin Gasperin) are parent-confirmed and are never his.

Comisiones Episcopales de la CEM, Trienio 2024-2027, Prot. 314/24 — Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (Vida Nueva Digital reproduction) · 2024PRIMARY-CONFERENCE, VIA REPRODUCTION, CHECKED-AND-ABSENT. A find for 'Madrigal' on the full 510-line extraction returns nothing: he is NOT listed in the 2024-2027 commissions document, so the June 2023 directorio's Cuidado Integral role is prior-triennium only and is never carried forward as a 2024-2027 office. Parent-checked October 2026.

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