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Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marcos

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Country
  
Guatemala

Parishes
  
30

Area
  
3,791 km (1,464 sq mi)

Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marcos

Ecclesiastical province
  
Province of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán

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

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 862,000 595,000 (69%)

The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marcos (erected 10 March 1951) is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán.

Ordinaries

  • Celestino Miguel Fernández Pérez, O.F.M. (1955–1971)
  • Próspero Penados del Barrio (1971–1983)
  • Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti (1984–1988)
  • Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (1988–2012); transferred to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huehuetenango on 14 May 2012

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marcos Wikipedia
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