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Roman Catholic Diocese of Sololá Chimaltenango

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Parishes
  
34

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Guatemala

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
3,040 km²

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

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 924,000 744,000 (80.5%)

Established
  
10 March 1951 (66 years ago)

Bishop
  
Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán in Guatemala's southern interior.

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It has a Cathedral episcopal see, Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, in Sololá, and a Co-Cathedral Concatedral Santa Ana, in Chimaltenango.

History

It was erected on 10 March 1951, as the Diocese of Sololá, on territories split off from the then Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos and the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala.

On 27 April 1967, it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Santa Cruz del Quiché. It was renamed Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango on 31 December 1996.

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Sololá
  • Apostolic Administrator Jorge García Cabalieros (1951.03.10 – 1955.04.05), while Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos (Guatemala) (1928.06.30 – 1955.04.05), also Apostolic Administrator of San Marcos (Guatemala) (1951.03.10 – 1955.04.05)
  • Angélico Melotto Mazzardo, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1959.06.27 – 1986.04.05), also President of Episcopal Conference of Guatemala (1978 – 1980)
    • Suffragan Bishops of Sololá-himaltenango
  • Eduardo Ernesto Fuentes Duarte (1986.04.05 – death 1997.07.20), succeeding as former Coadjutor Bishop of Sololá (1982.10.18 – 1986.04.05); previously Titular Bishop of Lares (1980.04.09 – 1982.10.18) & Auxiliary Bishop of above Guatemala (1980.04.09 – 1982.10.18)
  • Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes (1999.01.28 – 2007.07.28); later Titular Bishop of Mizigi (2007.07.28 – ...) & Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Guatemala (Guatemala) (2007.07.28 – ...)
  • Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, Society of Jesus (S.J.) (2007.07.28 – ...), previously Titular Bishop of Rotaria (2004.07.09 – 2007.07.28) & Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala (Guatemala) (2004.07.09 – 2007.07.28); also Apostolic Administrator of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango–Totonicapán (Guatemala) (2010.10 – 2011.07.14)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango Wikipedia
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