Suffragan diocese Juigalpa, Nicaragua
Diocese of Juigalpa
Iuigalpen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese seated in Juigalpa, Nicaragua. Erected as a territorial prelature on 21 July 1962 and elevated to a diocese on 30 April 1991, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Managua; its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption.
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- Established
- 1962
- Catholics
- 321,000
- Priests
- 35
- Territory
- 14,022 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Marcial Humberto Guzman Saballo
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The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption stands in Juigalpa, 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.
History
Erected on 21 July 1962 as the Territorial Prelature of Juigalpa and elevated on 30 April 1991, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Juigalpa stands as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Managua.