Many of Chihuahua's priests were trained at the seminaries in El Paso, TX, Santa Fe, NM, and Phoenix, AZ.

Pope John XXIII[7], and now is the metropolitan of the following suffragan dioceses within the Ecclesiastical Province of Chihuahua: Ciudad Juárez[8], Cuauhtémoc-Madera[9], Nuevo Casas Grandes[10], Parral[11] and Tarahumara[12].

The archdiocese encompasses 73,956 square kilometers in the center of the state, and as of 2006, contained 1,176,000 Catholics, 59 parishes, 131 priests and 10 permanent deacons.

Constancio Miranda Weckmann [13] was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI[14] as archbishop and installed on 19 November 2009, succeeding José Fernández Arteaga [15], who had retired.

Fernández had been appointed archbishop by Pope John Paul II[16] in 1992; his predecessor, Adalberto Almeida y Merino[17], died on 21 June 2008, at the age of 92 at his home in Colonia Nombre de Dios, Chihuahua.