Bishop of Ciudad Victoria
Bishop Oscar Efraín Tamez Villarreal, Bishop of Ciudad Victoria, was born on September 4, 1973, in Allende Municipality, Nuevo León, Mexico, in the Diocese of Monterrey. He was ordained a priest for Monterrey on August 15, 2003. On October 31, 2016, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Madaurus and Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey. He received episcopal ordination on January 11, 2017, with Rogelio Cabrera López as principal consecrator and José Francisco Robles Ortega and Franco Coppola as co-consecrators. On September 23, 2021, he was appointed Bishop of Ciudad Victoria. He was installed as Bishop of Ciudad Victoria on November 17, 2021. On March 17, 2025, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Tampico. He ceased to hold the office of Apostolic Administrator of Tampico on April 9, 2026.