Diocese of Comayagua Dioecesis Comayaguensis Diócesis de Comayagua | |
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Location | |
Country | Honduras |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of Tegucigalpa |
Metropolitan | Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B. |
Statistics | |
Area | 7,527 km2 (2,906 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2006) 689,725 642,254 (93.1%) |
Parishes | 29 |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 13 March 1963 (61 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Ángel Falzóne |
Metropolitan Archbishop | José Vicente Nácher Tatay |
Map | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Comayagua is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa. The present diocese, erected 13 March 1963, revives a larger colonial bishopric.
Its present cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción, devoted to the Immaculate Concepcion, in Comayagua, which city also has the former cathedral: Iglesia de La Merced Iglesia de La Merced, devoted to Our Lady of Mercy.