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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.
The constitution of Guatemala establishes the freedom of religion. While it is not a state religion, the Catholic Church is recognized as "a distinct legal personality" that receives certain privileges. [1] According to the constitution, no member of the clergy of any religion may serve as president, vice president, government minister, or as a ...
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 .
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
The Catholic hierarchy in Guatemala sought to increase its reach and to reinforce ideas that it symbolized a stance against leftists Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Árbenz in the late 1940s and early 1950s who were considered socialists or communists. The color of the image was not highlighted during this era, but rather the focus was on the ...
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Francisco de Asís de Jutiapa; Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marcos; Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa de Lima; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala; Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Santo Cristo de Esquípulas; Roman Catholic Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Altos Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán (Latin: Archidioecesis Altensis, Quetzltenanguensis-Totonicapensis) is a Latin Metropolitan Archdiocese in Guatemala. The archiepiscopal seat is Quetzaltenango Cathedral ( Catedral del Espíritu Santo ), originally built in Quetzaltenango in 1535.