Diocese of Zacatecoluca
Zacatecolucan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Zacatecoluca, El Salvador
Latin rite diocese covering the department of La Paz and part of San Vicente in El Salvador. Erected on 5 May 1987 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, its seat is the Cathedral of Nuestra Senora de los Pobres in Zacatecoluca.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 May 1987
- Latin
- Zacatecolucan(us)
- Patron
- • Inmaculada Concepción de los Pobres, • Santa Lucía, Virgen y Mártir
- Annuario code
- 001000223
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 283,000
- Population
- 336,000
- Catholic share
- 84.2%
- Priests
- 62
- Catholics per priest
- 4,565
- Extent
- 1,536 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 184
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
- Elias Samuel Bolanos Avelar, S.D.B.
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
Catedral de Nuestra Senora de los Pobres, Zacatecoluca stands in Zacatecoluca, 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 Santa AnaSanta Ana
- Diocese of Santiago de MaríaSantiago de María
- Diocese of SonsonateSonsonate
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
El Salvador's Diocese of Zacatecoluca (Latin: Dioecesis Zacatecolucana), erected on 5 May 1987, is a Latin Church see and a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- 4a Calle Poniente 7, Apartado 4, Zacatecoluca, El Salvador
- Telephone
- [503]7928.1609
- [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].