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Roman Catholic Diocese of Huehuetenango

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Parishes
  
31

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Guatemala

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
7,400 km²

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Metropolitan
  
Mario Alberto Molina Palma, O.A.R.

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2010)896,833690,519 (77%)

Established
  
22 July 1961 (55 years ago)

Bishop
  
Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Huehuetenango, Guatemala was first erected 22 July 1961, as the Territorial Prelature of Huehuetenango. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán. It was elevated as a diocese on 23 December 1967.

Ordinaries

  • Hugo Mark Gerbermann, M.M. (1961 - 1975)
  • Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras (1975 - 1987)
  • Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti (1988 - 1996)
  • Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, C.M. (1996 - 2012)
  • Alvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (since 2012)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Huehuetenango Wikipedia
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