Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa information
Latin Catholic archdiocese in Honduras
Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa
Archidioecesis Tegucigalpensis
La arquidiócesis de Tegucigalpa
Catholic
Catedral Metropolitana de San Miguel de Arcángel
Location
Country
Honduras
Ecclesiastical province
Tegucigalpa
Statistics
Area
15,167 km2 (5,856 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics
(as of 2010) 1,801,000 1,550,000 (86.1%)
Parishes
56
Information
Denomination
Catholic Church
Sui iuris church
Latin Church
Rite
Roman Rite
Established
1561 (463 years ago) (1561)
Cathedral
Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel
Current leadership
Pope
Francis
Archbishop
José Vicente Nácher Tatay
Bishops emeritus
Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga
Juan José Pineda Fasquelle
Map
The Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa (Spanish: La arquidiócesis de Tegucigalpa) (1916 established, successor to the Diocese of Comayagua, erected 1561) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Honduras. Until 2023, it was the only metropolitan see in Honduras, with its ecclesiastical province covering the whole country.[1][2]
Its archepiscopal see is the Cathedral dedicated to St. Michael Archangel (Catedral Metropolitana de San Miguel de Arcángel), in the national capital, Tegucigalpa. It also has a Minor Basilica, National Shrine: Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Suyapa, also in Tegucigalpa, and
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.
^"Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved 18 April 2017
^"Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
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