Diocese of Choluteca
Cholutecen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Choluteca, Honduras
The Diocese of Choluteca is a Latin rite see in southern Honduras, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, with its seat at the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion in Choluteca and 17 parishes plus 4 missions. Bishop Teodoro Gomez Rivera was appointed in 2023 and also serves as apostolic administrator of the neighboring Diocese of Danli since October 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1964
- Latin
- Cholutecen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001146
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 544,370
- Population
- 726,250
- Catholic share
- 75.0%
- Priests
- 32
- Catholics per priest
- 17,012
- Extent
- 6,282 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 87
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
- Teodoro Gomez Rivera
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, Choluteca stands in Choluteca, 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 Tegucigalpa
A suffragan of Tegucigalpa.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TegucigalpaTegucigalpa
- Diocese of ComayaguaComayagua
- Diocese of DanlíDanlí
- Diocese of JuticalpaJuticalpa
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Casa Episcopal, Apartado 40, Choluteca 51101, D.D., Honduras
- Telephone
- 8878-8051
- [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].