Parishes 34 Rite Roman Rite Country Guatemala | Denomination Roman Catholic Area 3,012 km² | |
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Territory Quetzaltenango and Totonicapan Ecclesiastical province Province of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2010)
1,404,000
1,123,000 (80%) | ||
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán (Latin: Archidioecesis Altensis, Quetzltenanguensis-Totonicapensis) is a Latin Metropolitan Archdiocese in Guatemala.
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The archdiocese's cathedral epiccopal see is the Catedral del Espíritu Santo, in Quetzaltenango, originally built in 1535 in Quetzaltenango, It also has a co-cathedral, San Miguel Arcángel, in the city of Totonicapán.
It was vacant until named Mario Alberto Molina Palma on July 14, 2011; having been headed until Monday, October 4, 2010, by Archbishop Oscar Julio Vian Morales, who was then named by Pope Benedict XVI to succeed Cardinal Quezada as Metropolitan Archbishop of Guatemala.
History
It was erected on 27 July 1921 as the Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, on territory split off from the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guatemala.
It lost territory on 10 March 1951 to establish the Diocese of San Marcos and the Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango, both becoming its suffragans.
It was elevated and renamed to Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán on 13 February 1996. It lost more territory on 31 December 1996 to establish the Diocese of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu, another suffragan.
Province
It ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and the following suffragan dioceses :
Extent
The Archdiocese covers the departments of Quetzaltenango and Totonicapán. It has 28 parishes, 29 diocesan priests, 24 religious priests, 57 friars and 118 nuns.
Episcopal Ordinaries
(all Roman Rite)