page_title: List of Mexican Americans
section_title: Religious figures
hierarchical_section_title: List of Mexican Americans / Religious figures
caption_attribution_description: United Methodist Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño at General Conference 2008
context_page_description: Mexican Americans are residents of the United States who have Mexican ancestry. The list includes Mexican immigrants and those who lived in the southwestern United States when the territory was incorporated in 1848.
context_section_description: Eusebio L. Elizondo Almaguer – Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle
  Oscar Cantú – Auxiliary Bishop in San Antonio, Texas.
  Minerva G. Carcaño – Bishop in the United Methodist Church
  Arturo Cepeda – Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit
  Gilbert Espinosa Chávez – Roman Catholic bishop
  Virgilio Elizondo – Roman Catholic priest, and theologian
  Cirilo Flores – 5th Bishop of San Diego
  Daniel E. Flores – Bishop of Brownsville
  Patrick Flores – Roman Catholic bishop
  Elias Gabriel Galvan – retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church
  Naason Joaquin Garcia – current international leader of the La Luz Del Mundo church, and former pastor of several La Luz Del Mundo churches in California and Arizona between 1994 and 2014
  Richard John Garcia – bishop of Monterey, California
  Gustavo García-Siller – Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio
  José Horacio Gómez – Archbishop of Los Angeles 
  René Henry Gracida – bishop
  Joel Nestali Martinez – Bishop in the United Methodist Church
  Hugo Montoya – general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  Peter Morales – president of the Unitarian Universalist Association
  Eduardo Nevares – Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix
  Jorge Rodríguez-Novelo – Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of Denver
  Armando Xavier Ochoa – Bishop of El Paso, TX
  Ricardo Ramírez – Bishop of Las Cruzes, New Mexico.
  Plácido Rodriguez – Bishop of Lubbock, Texas
  Alberto Rojas – Auxiliary Bishop and Episcopal Vicar for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
  Jaime Soto – Roman Catholic coadjutor bishop of Sacramento
  James Anthony Tamayo – Bishop of Laredo, Texas
  Ricardo Watty Urquidi – Bishop of the Diocese of Tepic in Nayarit, Mexico
  Joe S. Vásquez – Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Austin, Texas.
  Gabino Zavala – Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
caption: Methodist Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño
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