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The Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Guatemala. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a primatial metropolitan see with six suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province .
The Holy Church Cathedral Metropolitan Basilica of Santiago de Guatemala also Metropolitan Cathedral, officially Catedral Primada Metropolitana de Santiago, is the main church of Guatemala City and of the Archdiocese of Guatemala (Archidioecesis Guatimalensis). [1] It is located at the Parque Central in the center of the city.
The Catholic Church in Guatemala is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under spiritual leadership of the Pope, Curia in Rome and the Episcopal Conference of Guatemala. There are approximately 7.7 [1] million Catholics in Guatemala, which is about 46% of the total population of 17.1 million citizens. [2]
The Roman Catholic Church in Guatemala forms a single, entirely Latin Episcopal conference.. It comprises two ecclesiastical provinces (each headed by a Metropolitan Archbishop, with a total of 11 suffragan dioceses), three missionary pre-diocesan jurisdictions: one territorial prelature and two Apostolic vicariates, each headed by a (residential or titular) Bishop.
Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in Guatemala: [1] Catedral Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios y San Pablo Itzá in Flores; Cathedral of Our Lady of the Conception in Escuintla; Primatial Metropolitan Cathedral of St. James in Guatemala City; Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Huehuetenango
Parish of San José (Spanish: Catedral de San José), located in the city of Antigua Guatemala, is part of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala and is located in a section of the old Primate Cathedral of Antigua Guatemala, which was destroyed by the 1773 Guatemala earthquakes. The first construction of the cathedral began in 1545 with the ...
The Iglésia Católica Sagrado Corazón de Jesus is a church in Guatemala City, Guatemala. See also. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala; References
The Diocese of San Francisco de Asís de Jutiapa is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Guatemala. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala. The diocese's name refers to Francis of Assisi.