According to an official news release from the Holy See Press Office's Vatican Information Service (VIS), on August 2, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Sigifredo Noriega Barceló as the fifteenth Bishop of Zacatecas, transferring him from his post as the first Bishop of Ensenada in Ensenada, Mexico, a suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical Province of Tijuana in Tijuana, Mexico.

Bishop Sigifredo Noriega Barceló was born in Granados, Sonora, Mexico, on October 12, 1951.

He was then incardinated in the Diocese of Ciudad Obregón and was ordained a priest on October 7, 1976.

As a priest, he held the following positions: priest, spiritual director and vice-rector of the minor seminary, prefect of studies in the Major Seminary, diocesan promoter of vocations, member of the Presbyteral Council, the College of Consultors, of the Council of Administration of the University of La Salle, diocesan assessor for the Family.

Then, on January 26, 2007, he was appointed the first Bishop of Ensenada, Mexico, and received Episcopal Ordination on 25 April 2007.