Diocese of Huehuetenango
| Diocese of Huehuetenango | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Guatemala |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán |
| Diocesan bishop | Álvaro Cardinal Ramazzini |
| founding | 1961 |
| surface | 7,400 km² |
| Parishes | 30 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 1,265,000 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 922,900 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 73% |
| Diocesan priest | 29 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 31,824 |
| Friars | 6 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 59 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral de La Inmaculada Concepción |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Huehuetenango ( lat. : Dioecesis Gerontopolitanus ) is in Guatemala situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Huehuetenango . It includes the Huehuetenango department .
history
Pope John XXIII founded the territorial prelature Huehuetenango on July 22, 1961 from cessions of territory of the diocese of San Marcos , which was subordinated to the archdiocese of Guatemala as a suffragan .
On December 23, 1967, she was raised to a diocese. On February 13, 1996 it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán .
Ordinaries
Prelate of Huehuetenango
- Mark Hugo Gerbermann MM , July 22, 1961 - December 23, 1967
Bishops of Huehuetenango
- Mark Hugo Gerbermann MM, December 23, 1967 - July 22, 1975
- Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras , September 20, 1975 - April 4, 1987, then Bishop of Quetzaltenango , Los Altos
- Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti , March 10, 1988 - April 27, 1996, then Bishop of Santa Rosa de Lima
- Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata CM , September 28, 1996 - May 14, 2012
- Álvaro Cardinal Ramazzini , since May 14, 2012
See also
Web links
- Entry for Diocese of Huehuetenango on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on Diocese of Huehuetenango on gcatholic.org (English)