Archdiocese of San Salvador
Sancti Salvatoris in America
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · San Salvador, El Salvador
Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese covering the capital of El Salvador. Erected in 1842 from the Archdiocese of Guatemala and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1913, it heads the single ecclesiastical province of El Salvador. Its seat is the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, shrine of St. Oscar Romero.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 September 1842
- Latin
- Sancti Salvatoris in America
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora del Rosario( Patrona) Y Divino Salvador Del Mundo (Co-Patrono)
- Annuario code
- 001002940
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 2,322,000
- Population
- 3,137,000
- Catholic share
- 74.0%
- Priests
- 158
- Catholics per priest
- 14,696
- Extent
- 3,295 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 705
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
- Archbishop
- Jose Luis Escobar Alas
- Born
- 10 March 1959
- Birthplace
- Suchitoto
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
Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador stands in San Salvador, 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
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of ChalatenangoChalatenango
- 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
The Salvadoran capital and its surrounding region form the archepiscopal see of this Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. José Luis Escobar Alas is the current Archbishop of San Salvador, and his cathedra stands in the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, otherwise the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Saviour (Catedral Metropolitana de 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].