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Francisco Orozco y Jiménez

Mexican archbishop of Guadalajara through the Cristero persecution

Servant of GodFull write-upMexico
Born
19 November 1864
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Died
18 February 1936
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Beatified
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not yet
Canonised
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not yet

Who they were

Bishop of Chiapas from 1902 and then archbishop of Guadalajara, he led the church in Jalisco through the anticlerical persecution of the 1920s and 1930s, spending long periods exiled or in hiding, and died in Guadalajara on 18 February 1936.

The miracles

No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.

Why that counted as sanctity

The archdiocese of Guadalajara is the petitioner for his cause, whose diocesan inquiry opened in 1994; santiebeati.it lists him as a Servant of God.

The cause

The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.

A miracle approved by the Holy See is needed for the next step. If you know the postulation’s own page, tell us and it will be added here.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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