Mexico City , Mexico ( CNN ) -- An 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest was found stabbed to death in his church in the city of Oaxaca , in southern Mexico , CNNMexico.com reported Thursday , citing state police . The Rev . Carlos Salvador Wotto was found in the church office Wednesday night with several stab wounds and bound hands and feet , CNNMexico reported . Wotto had been the parish priest at Nuestra Senora de las Nieves ( Our Lady of the Snow ) for eight years . State and local authorities were investigating and no motive was immediately given . Jose Guadalupe Barragan , a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Antequera , said church officials would wait for the investigation to end before commenting . Barragan said there is a shortage of priests in Oaxaca . The national norm is one priest for every 5,000 parishioners , he said , while there are only 140 priests for Oaxaca 's 3 million inhabitants . That amounts to one priest for about every 21,400 residents . Wednesday 's homicide was the second recent incident in the state of Oaxaca involving a priest . The Rev . Martin Octavio Garcia Ortiz from the town of San Jose del Progreso was abducted June 19 in a dispute over a local mine . State police rescued Garcia and then arrested him on charges that he was responsible for the deaths of two officials who were shot after an anti-mine rally . Garcia , who said he was tortured by his pro-mining abductors , was hospitalized with head and body injuries .
NEW : No motive was immediately given . NEW : Another priest in the same parish was killed in June . The slain priest was found in the parish office with bound hands and feet . The Rev . Carlos Alberto Wotto had been the parish priest for eight years .