Diocese of Sonsonate
Sonsonaten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sonsonate, El Salvador
Latin rite diocese covering the department of Sonsonate in western El Salvador. Erected on 31 May 1986 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, its seat is the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Sonsonate.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 31 May 1986
- Latin
- Sonsonaten(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001003090
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 439,000
- Population
- 548,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 80.1%
- Priests
- 57
- Catholics per priest
- 7,702
- Extent
- 1,225 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 358
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
- Constantino Barrera Morales
- Born
- 18 December 1963
- Birthplace
- Ciudad Victoria
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 Most Holy Trinity, Sonsonate stands in Sonsonate, 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 ZacatecolucaZacatecoluca
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Erected on 31 May 1986, Sonsonate is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador.
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The see's own website · 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.