The Roman Catholic Diocese of Danlí is a Latin
suffragan
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bishopric in the
ecclesiastical province
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(covering all
Honduras
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) of the Metropolitan
Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, with see at
Danlí, in southern Honduras's
El Paraíso department
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The territory of El Paraíso was initially part of the departments of Tegucigalpa (renamed Francisco Morazán in 1943) and Olancho after Central Amer ...
(but not its capital).
Its
cathedral
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episcopal is the Catedral de la Inmaculata Concepción, devoted to the
Immaculate Conception
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, in Danlí.
History
The diocese was erected on 2 January 2017 by
Pope Francis
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, on Honduran territory split off from that of its Metropolitan mother see, the
Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa (1916 established, successor to the Diocese of Comayagua, erected 1561) is the only Metropolitan see in Honduras, whose ecclesiastical province covers the whole country. . It was immediately subject to the Roman
Congregation for Bishops
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, without a (semi-)missionary stage.
Episcopal ordinaries
Its first and present Suffragan Bishop is
José Antonio Canales Motiño
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,
bishop-elect
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since 2 January 2017, a secular cleric, born on 19 March 1962 in Honduras, ordained Priest on 12 October 1996.
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See also
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List of Catholic dioceses in Honduras
The Roman Catholic Church in Honduras comprises only a Latin hierarchy, joined in the Episcopal Conference of Honduras, comprising a single ecclesiastical province (covering all and only Honduras), headed by the Metropolitan archbishop of the capit ...
References
Sources and external links
GCatholic - data for all sections
Roman Catholic dioceses in Honduras
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Tegucigalpa
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