Suffragan diocese Sonsonate, El Salvador
Diocese of Sonsonate
Sonsonaten(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese covering the department of Sonsonate in western El Salvador. Erected on 31 May 1986 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, its seat is the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Sonsonate.
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- Established
- 1986
- Catholics
- 439,000
- Priests
- 57
- Territory
- 1,225 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Constantino Barrera Morales
- Born
- 18 December 1963
- Birthplace
- Ciudad Victoria
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The cathedral
Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Sonsonate stands in Sonsonate, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
Erected on 31 May 1986, Sonsonate is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador.
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