Diocese of Juticalpa
Iuticalpen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Juticalpa, Honduras
Latin-rite diocese covering Olancho department in eastern Honduras, erected 6 March 1949 as the Territorial Prelature of Inmaculada Concepcion de la B.V.M. en Olancho and elevated to diocese on 31 October 1987. Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Juticalpa.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1949
- Latin
- Iuticalpen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001768
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 491,201
- Population
- 546,129
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 89.9%
- Priests
- 31
- Catholics per priest
- 15,845
- Extent
- 24,351 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 20
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 Bonello, 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 the Immaculate Conception, Juticalpa stands in Juticalpa, 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 Tegucigalpa
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TegucigalpaTegucigalpa
- Diocese of CholutecaCholuteca
- Diocese of ComayaguaComayagua
- Diocese of DanlíDanlí
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Apartado 2, Sexta Avenida, Barrio El Centro, Juticalpa, Olancho 16101, Honduras
- Telephone
- 2785-2011
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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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.