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Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pedro Sula

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Parishes
  
32

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Honduras

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
3,923 km²

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Metropolitan
  
Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B.

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2011) 1,570,291 900,000 (57.3%)

Established
  
2 February 1916 (101 years ago)

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa

The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pedro Sula (erected 2 February 1916, as the Vicariate Apostolic of San Pedro Sula) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa. It was elevated on 6 July 1963.

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Ordinaries

  • Juan Sastre y Riutort, C.M. (1924 - 1949)
  • Antonio Capdevilla Ferrando, C.M. (1953 - 1962)
  • José García Villas, C.M. (1963 - 1965)
  • Jaime Brufau Maciá, C.M. (1966 - 1993)
  • Angel Garachana Pérez, C.M.F. (1994 - )

    • Bishops

  • Bishop: Angel Garachana Pérez, C.M.F.
  • Auxiliary Bishop: Rómulo Emiliani Sánchez, C.M.F.

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pedro Sula Wikipedia
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