Diocese of Sololá–Chimaltenango
Sololen(sis)-Chimaltenangen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sololá, Guatemala
The Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango is a Latin suffragan diocese in Guatemala's southern interior, erected as the Diocese of Sololá in 1951 and renamed in 1996. Its cathedral is Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Sololá, with a co-cathedral in Chimaltenango, and it is led by Bishop Domingo Buezo Leiva.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 March 1951
- Latin
- Sololen(sis)-Chimaltenangen(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
- Annuario code
- 001003086
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 744,000
- Population
- 924,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 80.5%
- Priests
- 111
- Catholics per priest
- 6,703
- Extent
- 3,040 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 245
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
- Domingo Buezo Leiva
- Born
- 12 December 1962
- Birthplace
- Zulia
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 Nuestra Señora de la Asunción stands in Sololá, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Concatedral Santa Ana, Chimaltenango.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Guatemala's southern interior, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango is a Latin suffragan diocese within the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán. Its episcopal see is the Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Sololá, complemented by a co-cathedral, the Concatedral Santa Ana, in Chimaltenango.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.