Bishop Ricardo Gόmez Osnaya recently marked his eighth year as bishop of the Diocese of Western Mexico.
The diocese is based in Zapopan, Jalisco and its cathedral is St. Paul the Apostle, located in the Los Maestros neighborhood.
Most of the diocese is Spanish-speaking and is comprised of parishes, missions and prayer stations. It covers a vast territory northward to Tijuana in Baja California, southward to the state of Colima, and eastward to Guadalajara in Jalisco.
At the national level, the Anglican Church of México was established in 1994 and is comprised of five dioceses, each headed by a bishop: the Diocese of Mexico, the Diocese of Cuernavaca, the Northern Diocese, the Western Diocese and the Southeastern Diocese.