Diocese of San Vicente
Sancti Vincentii
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Vicente, El Salvador
Latin rite diocese in central El Salvador covering the department of Cabanas and most of San Vicente. Erected on 18 December 1943, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, with its seat at the Cathedral of St. Vincent in San Vicente.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 December 1943
- Latin
- Sancti Vincentii
- Patron
- • María Auxiliadora, • san Vicente Abad y Mártir
- Annuario code
- 001002985
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 467,779
- Population
- 508,000
- Catholic share
- 92.1%
- Priests
- 79
- Catholics per priest
- 5,921
- Extent
- 4,993 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
- Jose Elias Rauda Gutierrez, O.F.M.
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 of St. Vincent, San Vicente stands in San Vicente, 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 MiguelSan Miguel
- 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 18 December 1943, the Diocese of San Vicente (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Vincentii) is a Latin Church see in El Salvador, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, 2a Avenida Norte 10, San Vicente, El Salvador
- Telephone
- 2393-0004; fax 2393-6802
- [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].