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Diocese of San Francisco de Asís de Jutiapa

Santi Francisci Assisien(sis) de Iutiapa

The Diocese of San Francisco de Asis de Jutiapa is a Latin rite see covering the 3,219 km2 department of Jutiapa in southeastern Guatemala, erected by Pope Francis on 25 January 2016 with the bull Ab Domino ipso from territory of the Diocese of Jalapa. It is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Guatemala. Bishop Antonio Calderon Cruz has been its first and only bishop since its erection in 2016.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
25 January 2016
Latin
Santi Francisci Assisien(sis) de Iutiapa
Patron
St. Francis of Assisi
Annuario code
001002896

The see in figures

Catholics
398,290
Priests
27
Catholics per priest
14,751
Extent
3,219 km²
Catholics per km²
124

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
Antonio Calderon Cruz
Born
13 June 1959
Birthplace
Ciudad de Guatemala

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

de San Cristóbal stands in San Francisco de Asís de Jutiapa, 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:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

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.

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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].