Diocese of San Marcos
Diocese of San Marcos | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Guatemala |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán |
Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
surface | 3,791 km² |
Parishes | 30 ( AP2015 ) |
Residents | 950,000 ( AP2015 ) |
Catholics | 652,000 ( AP2015 ) |
proportion of | 68.6% |
Diocesan priest | 34 ( AP2015 ) |
Religious priest | 7 ( AP2015 ) |
Catholics per priest | 15,902 |
Friars | 8 ( AP2015 ) |
Religious sisters | 92 ( AP2015 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Spanish |
cathedral | San Marcos Evangelista |
The Diocese of San Marcos ( lat. : Dioecesis Sancti Marci in Guatimala ) is in Guatemala situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in San Marcos . It includes the department of San Marcos .
history
Pope Pius XII founded the diocese of San Marcos on March 10, 1951 from cessions of territory of the diocese Quetzaltenango , which was subordinate to the archdiocese of Guatemala as a suffragan .
On July 22, 1961, it lost part of the territory to the Huehuetenango Territorial Prelature . On February 13, 1996 it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán .
Bishops of San Marcos
- Celestino Miguel Fernández Pérez OFM , November 30, 1955-7. December 1971
- Próspero Penados del Barrio , December 7, 1971–1. December 1983, then Archbishop of Guatemala
- Julio Amílcar Bethancourt Fioravanti , April 4, 1984-10. March 1988, then Bishop of Huehuetenango
- Álvaro Ramazzini , December 5, 1988-14. May 2012, then Bishop of Huehuetenango
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Carlos Enrique Trinidad Gómez , November 4, 2014–9. May 2018
- Sedis vacancy since May 9, 2018
See also
Web links
- Entry for the Diocese of San Marcos on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on the Diocese of San Marcos on gcatholic.org (English)