Diocese of Granada
Granaden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Granada, Nicaragua
Latin rite diocese seated in Granada, Nicaragua, erected on 2 December 1913. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Managua and its seat is the Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Granada.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2 December 1913
- Latin
- Granaden(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001514
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 591,540
- Population
- 654,190
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 90.4%
- Priests
- 93
- Catholics per priest
- 6,361
- Extent
- 7,453 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 79
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
- Jorge Solorzano Perez
- Born
- 23 March 1961
- Birthplace
- San Andrés de la Palanca
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
Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Granada stands in Granada, 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 Managua
A suffragan of Managua.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ManaguaManagua
- Diocese of BluefieldsBluefields
- Diocese of EstelíEstelí
- Diocese of JinotegaJinotega
- Diocese of JuigalpaJuigalpa
- Diocese of LeónLeón
- Diocese of MatagalpaMatagalpa
- Diocese of SiunaSiuna
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Obispado, Plaza Independencia 1, Granada, Nicaragua
- Telephone
- 2552-2142
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.