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Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalapa (Guatemala)

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Parishes
  
33

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Country
  
Guatemala

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
7,204 km²

Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalapa (Guatemala)

Metropolitan
  
Oscar Julio Vian Morales, S.D.B.

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2010)827,958678,926 (82%)

Established
  
10 March 1951 (66 years ago)

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalapa is a Latin suffragan diocese in southeastern Guatemala, in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of (Santiago de) Guatemala.

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Its Marian cathedral episcopal see is Nuestra Señora de la Expectación in Jalapa, its patron saint Santa Cruz (the Holy Cross).

History

It was erected on 10 March 1951, on territoty split off from the Archdiocese of Guatemala, which remains its Metropolitan.

On 25 January 2016 it lost territory to erect the Roman Catholic Diocese of (San Francisco de Asís de) Jutiapa as fellow suffragan of Guatemala.

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

  • Miguel Angel García y Aráuz (1951.04.11 – retired 1987.01.29), previously Titular Bishop of Sophene (1944.05.16 – 1951.04.11) & Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Guatemala (Guatemala) (1944.05.16 – 1951.04.11); also Apostolic Administrator of Zacapa (Guatemala) (1951 – 1955.11.30)
  • Jorge Mario Avila del Aguila, Lazarists (C.M.) (1987.01.29 – retired 2001.12.05), previously Apostolic Administrator of El Petén (Guatemala) (1978.02.03 – 1984.02.03), Titular Bishop of Nasai (1982.12.03 – 1987.01.29), Apostolic Vicar of El Petén (Guatemala) (1984.02.03 – 1987.01.29)
  • Julio Edgar Cabrera Ovalle ((2001.12.05 - ), previously Bishop of Quiché (Guatemala) (1986.10.31 – 2001.12.05)

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    Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalapa (Guatemala) Wikipedia
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