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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 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 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.
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 Diocese of Escuintla 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 metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala. The Diocese of Escuintla was erected on 28 July 1994 from a territorial prelature.
It was erected on 27 July 1921 as the Diocese of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, on territory split off from the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guatemala. It lost territory on 10 March 1951 to establish the Diocese of San Marcos and the Diocese of Sololá-Chimaltenango, both becoming its suffragans.
Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan, in and for Belize (in Central America, formerly British Honduras) Ecclesiastical province of Nassau - comprising several current and former British territories to the north of the Caribbean. Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nassau, on the Bahamas. Diocese of Hamilton (in Bermuda), on Bermuda
The Diocese of Jalapa is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in southeastern Guatemala. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala. Its Marian cathedral is Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Expectación in the episcopal see of Jalapa.