The Diocese of Santiago de María is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador. The Diocese of Santiago de María was erected on 2 December 1954.
Diocese of Santiago de María Dioecesis Sancti Iacobi de Maria | |
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Location | |
Country | El Salvador |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of San Salvador |
Metropolitan | José Luis Escobar Alas |
Statistics | |
Area | 2,866 km2 (1,107 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2014) 563,000 449,700 (79.9%) |
Parishes | 40 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 2 December 1954 (69 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of St. James the Apostle |
Secular priests | 85 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | William Ernesto Iraheta Rivera |
Map | |
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Ordinaries
edit- Francisco José Castro y Ramírez (1956–1974)
- Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (1974–1977), appointed Archbishop of San Salvador
- Arturo Rivera Damas, S.D.B. (1977–1983), appointed Archbishop of San Salvador
- Rodrigo Orlando Cabrera Cuéllar (1983–2016)
- William Ernesto Iraheta Rivera (2016– )
References
editExternal links
edit- "Diocese of Santiago de María". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-16. [self-published]