Diocese of Santa Ana
Sanctae Annae
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Santa Ana, El Salvador
Latin rite diocese in western El Salvador. Erected on 11 February 1913 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady Saint Anne in the city of Santa Ana.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 February 1913
- Latin
- Sanctae Annae
- Patron
- Señora Santa Ana y Señor San Joaquín, Padres de la Virgen María
- Annuario code
- 001002943
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 985,000
- Population
- 1,533,000
- Catholic share
- 64.3%
- Priests
- 113
- Catholics per priest
- 8,717
- Extent
- 3,272 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 301
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
- Miguel Angel Moran Aquino
- Born
- 25 May 1955
- Birthplace
- Esquipulas
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 Our Lady Saint Anne, Santa Ana stands in Santa Ana, 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 San VicenteSan Vicente
- 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
Santa Ana, a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador, was erected on 11 February 1913. It stands as a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Casa Episcopal, 3a Av. Norte 3, Santa Ana 02-102, El Salvador
- Telephone
- 2441.28.55; Tel. e fax 2441.02.78
- [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].