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Víctor Melchor Quintana Quezada

Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes
Bishop
1969
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Ordained
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Consecrated Bishop
Nuevo Casas Grandes
Diocese
Mexico
Country
The Life

Víctor Melchor Quintana Quezada was born on 29 July 1969 in Santa Ana, in the Archdiocese of Chihuahua. He studied philosophy and theology at the Seminary of Chihuahua and was ordained a priest on 16 September 1996. He took a licentiate in pastoral theology at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

As a priest of the Archdiocese of Chihuahua he served as parish vicar and as parish priest of various communities, and as prefect and bursar of the major seminary. Since 2019 he has been parish priest of Santa María Reina.

Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes on 25 January 2025. He was consecrated bishop and took possession of the see in a single ceremony on 25 March 2025, as the fourth Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes, succeeding Jesús José Herrera Quiñónez, whose move to Culiacán had left the see vacant since 2023.

The Old Mass, See by See
Nuevo Casas Grandes2025-03-25 – presentNo act of his own
What he inheritedNo provision for the 1962 Missal inherited from Jesús José Herrera Quiñónez 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
Domus Dei’s Verdict
The Bishop & the Mass of Ages
No governing act of his own found
References & Further Reading
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Resignations and Appointments, 25 January 2025 — Holy See Press Office · 2025Appointment as Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes; born 29 July 1969 in Santa Ana, Archdiocese of Chihuahua; philosophy and theology at the Seminary of Chihuahua; priestly ordination 16 September 1996; licentiate in pastoral theology, Pontifical Lateran University; offices: parish vicar, parish priest of various communities, prefect and bursar of the major seminary; parish priest of Santa María Reina since 2019. The bulletin gives a licentiate, not a doctorate; a secondary piece calling him a doctorate-holder is rejected on the bulletin's authority.
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Ordenación de Mons. Víctor Melchor Quintana Quezada IV Obispo Diócesis de Nuevo Casas Grandes — Diocese of Nuevo Casas Grandes · 2025Diocesan video description: on Tuesday 25 March 2025 the solemn ceremony of episcopal ordination and toma de posesión of Mons. Víctor Melchor Quintana Quezada as fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Nuevo Casas Grandes took place. Consecration and possession were the same ceremony, so no canon 418 gap arises. The video description does not name the consecrators, and none is named here. The description also lists the diocesan web, Facebook and Instagram handles; those social pages were not checkable by text fetch.
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