Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango Dioecesis Sololensis-Chimaltenangensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Guatemala |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán |
Metropolitan | Mario Alberto Molina Palma, O.A.R. |
Statistics | |
Area | 3,040 km2 (1,170 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 924,000 744,000 (80.5%) |
Parishes | 34 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 10 March 1951 (73 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Asunción |
Co-cathedral | Concatedral Santa Ana |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Domingo Buezo Leiva |
Map | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán in Guatemala's southern interior.
It has a Cathedral episcopal see, Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, in Sololá, and a Co-Cathedral Concatedral Santa Ana, in Chimaltenango.
It was erected on 10 March 1951, as the Diocese of Sololá, on territories split off from the Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos and the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala.
On 27 April 1967, it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Santa Cruz del Quiché. It was renamed Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango on 31 December 1996.