Diocese of Jalapa
Ialapen(sis) in Guatimala
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jalapa, Guatemala
The Diocese of Jalapa is a Latin rite see in southeastern Guatemala, erected on 10 March 1951 from territory of the Archdiocese of Guatemala and suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala. Its Marian cathedral is the Catedral Nuestra Senora de la Expectacion in Jalapa. Bishop Jose Benedicto Moscoso Miranda has led the diocese since 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 March 1951
- Latin
- Ialapen(sis) in Guatimala
- Patron
- Santa Cruz
- Annuario code
- 001001713
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 678,926
- Population
- 827,958
- Catholic share
- 82.0%
- Priests
- 34
- Catholics per priest
- 19,968
- Extent
- 7,204 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 94
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
- Jose Benedicto Moscoso Miranda
- Born
- 7 July 1959
- Birthplace
- San Luis Jilotepeque
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 Senora de la Expectacion, Jalapa stands in Jalapa, 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 Guatemala
A suffragan of Santiago de Guatemala.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of San Francisco de Asís de JutiapaSan Francisco de Asís de Jutiapa
- Diocese of Santa Rosa de LimaSanta Rosa de Lima
- Diocese of Vera Paz, CobánCobán
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In southeastern Guatemala, the Diocese of Jalapa is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala. Its Marian cathedral, the Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Expectación, stands in the episcopal see of Jalapa, and the diocese keeps Santa Cruz (the Holy Cross) as its patron.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, 7ª Avenida 0-42, Zona 1, 21001 Jalapa, Guatemala
- Telephone
- 7922.4022
- [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].