Diocese of Chalatenango
Chalatenangen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Chalatenango, El Salvador
Latin-rite diocese in northern El Salvador, erected on 30 December 1987 and suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Salvador. Its seat is St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Chalatenango.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 December 1987
- Latin
- Chalatenangen(sis)
- Patron
- • san Juan Bautista, • Inmaculada Concepción de María
- Annuario code
- 001001101
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 244,000
- Population
- 271,000
- Catholic share
- 90.0%
- Priests
- 46
- Catholics per priest
- 5,304
- Extent
- 2,600 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
- Oswaldo Estefano Escobar Aguilar, O.C.D.
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
St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Chalatenango stands in Chalatenango, 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 San Salvador
A suffragan of San Salvador.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of San SalvadorSan Salvador
- Diocese of San MiguelSan Miguel
- Diocese of San VicenteSan Vicente
- Diocese of Santa AnaSanta Ana
- Diocese of Santiago de MaríaSantiago de María
- Diocese of SonsonateSonsonate
- Diocese of ZacatecolucaZacatecoluca
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Erected on 30 December 1987, Chalatenango is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador, serving as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador.
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.
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].