Sololá-Chimaltenango diocese
| Sololá-Chimaltenango diocese | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Guatemala |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán |
| Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
| founding | 1951 |
| surface | 3,024 km² |
| Parishes | 39 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Residents | 1,243,243 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics | 713.047 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| proportion of | 57.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 82 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 3 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 8,389 |
| Friars | 3 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 121 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| address | Apartado 107, Calzada Venancio Barrios 0-551, Zona 2, 07001 Sololà, Guatemala |
| Website | http://www.riial.org/guatemala/destsol.htm |
The Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango ( lat. : Dioecesis Sololensis-Chimaltenangensis ) is in Guatemala situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Sololá . It includes the departments of Sololá and Chimaltenango .
history
Pope Pius XII founded the Diocese of Sololá on March 10, 1951 from cessions of territory from the Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos and the Archdiocese of Guatemala , to which it was subordinated as a suffragan .
Part of the territory gave it up on April 27, 1967 to the diocese of Santa Cruz del Quiché . On February 13, 1996 it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán and was given its current name in the same year.
Ordinaries
Bishops of Sololá
- Angélico Melotto Mazzardo OFM (June 27, 1959– April 5, 1986, retired)
- Eduardo Ernesto Duarte Fuentes (April 5, 1986– December 31, 1996)
Bishops of Sololá-Chimaltenango
- Eduardo Ernesto Duarte Fuentes (December 31, 1996– July 20, 1997, died)
- Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes (January 28, 1999– July 28, 2007, then auxiliary bishop in Guatemala )
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Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez SJ (July 28, 2007– July 9, 2020, then Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala )
- Sedis vacancy since July 9, 2020
See also
Web links
- Entry for the Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on the Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango on gcatholic.org (English)