Diocese of San Miguel
Sancti Michaëlis
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Miguel, El Salvador
Latin-rite diocese in eastern El Salvador, erected on 11 February 1913 and suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Salvador. Its seat is the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Queen of Peace in San Miguel.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 February 1913
- Latin
- Sancti Michaëlis
- Patron
- • san Miguel Arcángel, • Nuestra Señora de la Paz
- Annuario code
- 001002929
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 871,500
- Population
- 1,253,100
- Catholic share
- 69.5%
- Priests
- 70
- Catholics per priest
- 12,450
- Extent
- 4,993 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 175
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
- Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca
- Born
- 20 June 1961
- Birthplace
- Ilobasco
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
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Queen of Peace, San Miguel stands in San Miguel, 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 ChalatenangoChalatenango
- 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
El Salvador's Diocese of San Miguel (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Michaelis), a Latin Church see erected on 11 February 1913, is a suffragan diocese in 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].