Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal
Izabalen(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Izabal, Guatemala
The Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction covering the 9,038 km2 department of Izabal in eastern Guatemala, erected in 1988. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Puerto Barrios. Bishop Miguel Angel Martinez Mendez has served as vicar apostolic since 23 December 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 March 1988
- Latin
- Izabalen(sis)
- Patron
- Inmaculada Concepción
- Annuario code
- 001000417
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 233,700
- Priests
- 24
- Catholics per priest
- 9,738
- Extent
- 9,038 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 26
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Miguel Angel Martinez Mendez
- Born
- 5 May 1959
- Birthplace
- Yupiltepeque
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 de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Puerto Barrios stands in Izabal, 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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, 19 calle 17a Avenida, 18001 Puerto Barrios, Izabal, Guatemala
- Telephone
- 7948-2159
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].