The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gracias (Latin: ''Dioecesis Gratiensis'') is a

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...

of the

Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

History

It was erected on 27 April 2021 with its territory having been carved from the

Diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

. The diocese was a suffragan of 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.

until 2023, when it was transferred to the newly erected province of San Pedro Sula, and covers 21 parishes with 500,000 Catholics.

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Walter Guillén Soto Walter Guillén Soto (6 December 1961) is a Honduran prelate of the Catholic Church and a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco who has been the Bishop of Gracias in Honduras since 2021. Biography Walter Guillén Soto was born in San Pedro Sul ...

, SDB: (27 Apr 2021 Appointed - present)

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Gracias Gracias () is a small Honduran town/municipality that was founded in 1536, and is the capital of Lempira Department. The municipality has a population of 57,182 and the town a population of 16,680 (2020 calculation). It is located in the moun ...

Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Tegucigalpa Christian organizations established in 2021 {{RC-diocese-stub

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