Diocese of Escuintla
Escuintlen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Escuintla, Guatemala
The Diocese of Escuintla is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in southern Guatemala, erected on 28 July 1994 from a territorial prelature. Its cathedral is Nuestra Señora de Concepción, and Bishop Ángel Antonio Recinos Lemus was appointed ordinary in March 2026 after transferring from Zacapa.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1994
- Latin
- Escuintlen(sis)
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001001373
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 887,000
- Population
- 1,149,000
- Catholic share
- 77.2%
- Priests
- 38
- Catholics per priest
- 23,342
- Extent
- 4,384 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 202
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Ángel Antonio Recinos Lemus
- Born
- 2 August 1963
- Birthplace
- Azulco
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral Nuestra Señora de Concepción stands in Escuintla, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Santiago de Guatemala
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Santiago de GuatemalaSantiago de Guatemala
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Raised from a territorial prelature on 28 July 1994, the Diocese of Escuintla is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Guatemala, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala. The Catedral Nuestra Señora de Concepción, in the episcopal see of Escuintla, serves as its cathedral.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].