Diocese of Escuintla Dioecesis Escuintlensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Guatemala |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of Guatemala City |
Statistics | |
Area | 4,384 km2 (1,693 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 1,149,000 887,000 (77.2%) |
Parishes | 17 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 28 July 1994 (29 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral Nuestra Señora de Concepción |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Victor Hugo Palma Paúl |
Map | |
The Diocese of Escuintla is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Guatemala. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala. The Diocese of Escuintla was erected on 28 July 1994 from a territorial prelature.
Its cathedral is Catedral Nuestra Señora de Concepción, in the episcopal see of Escuintla.
It was established on 1969.05.09 as a Territorial Prelature of Escuintla on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Guatemala, which remains its metropolitan. On 28 July 1994 it was promoted to diocese.
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