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Diocese of Juigalpa

Iuigalpen(sis)

Latin rite diocese seated in Juigalpa, Nicaragua. Erected as a territorial prelature on 21 July 1962 and elevated to a diocese on 30 April 1991, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Managua; its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
21 July 1962
Latin
Iuigalpen(sis)
Annuario code
001001761

The see in figures

Catholics
321,000
Population
386,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
83.2%
Priests
35
Catholics per priest
9,171
Extent
14,022 km²
Catholics per km²
23

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
Marcial Humberto Guzman Saballo

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 Our Lady of the Assumption stands in Juigalpa, 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:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Erected on 21 July 1962 as the Territorial Prelature of Juigalpa and elevated on 30 April 1991, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Juigalpa stands as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Managua.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Residencia Episcopal, Curacao 1/2 Cuadra al Este, Juigalpa, Chontales, Nicaragua
Telephone
2512-2442

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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Sources

Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.