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Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal

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Parishes
  
15

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Phone
  
+502 7948 2159

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
9,038 km²

Country
  
Guatemala

Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 419,000 280,000 (66.8%)

Established
  
30 April 1968 (48 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Catedral Inmaculada Concepción de María

Address
  
17, 19 Calle, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala

The Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal is a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction in eastern Guatemala's Izabal Department.

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It is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Inmaculada Concepción de María, in Puerto Barrios.

History

It was erected 30 April 1968, as the Apostolic Administration of Izabal', on territory split off from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zacapa. It was elevated on 12 March 1988.

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Apostolic Administrators of Izabal
  • Gerardo Humberto Flores Reyes (1969.05.09 – 1977.10.07), previously Auxiliary Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos (Guatemala) (1966.07.26 – 1969.05.09), Titular Bishop of Nova Cæsaris (1966.07.26 – 1977.10.07); later Bishop of Vera Paz (Guatemala) (1977.10.07 – 2001.02.22), President of Episcopal Conference of Guatemala (1992 – 1994)
  • Luis María Estrada Paetau, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1977.10.27 – 1988.03.12 see below)
    • Apostolic Vicars of Izabal
  • Luis María Estrada Paetau, Dominican Order (O.P.) (see above 1977.10.27 – 1988.03.12), Titular Bishop of Regiæ (1977.10.27 – 2011.03.25); previously Apostolic Administrator of El Petén (Guatemala) (1970.11.30 – emeritate 1977.10.27)
  • Gabriel Peñate Rodríguez (2004.05.21 – 2011.07.26 resignation), Titular Bishop of Succuba (2004.05.21 – ...)
  • Apostolic administrator Mario Enrique Ríos Mont, Lazarists (C.M.) (2011.07.26 – 2013.02.09), Titular Bishop of Tiguala (1974.07.13 – ...), previously Bishop-Prelate of the then Territorial Prelature of Escuintla (Guatemala) (1974.07.13 – 1984.03.03) & Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala (Guatemala) (1987.01.24 – 2010.10.02)
  • Domingo Buezo Leiva (2013.02.09 – ...), also Secretary General of Episcopal Conference of Guatemala (2012.03? – ...), Titular Bishop of Dardanus (2013.02.09 – ...)

    • References

    Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal Wikipedia
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