The Diocese of San Miguel ( la, Dioecesis Sancti Michaelis) is a

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of the

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. It is a

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in the

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of the metropolitan

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. The Diocese of San Miguel was erected on 11 February 1913.

Bishops

Ordinaries

* Juan Antonio Dueñas y Argumedo (1913–1941) * Miguel Angel Machado y Escobar (1942–1968) *

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, O.F.M. (1968–1969) * José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez, C.M. (1969–1997) *

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, O.F.M. (1997–1999), appointed Bishop of Santa Ana * Miguel Angel Morán Aquino (2000–2016), appointed Bishop of Santa Ana * Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca (2017–present)

Coadjutor bishops

, O.F.M. (1965–1968) *

, O.F.M. (1996–1997)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

Gregorio Rosa Chávez Gregorio Rosa Chávez (; born 3 September 1942) is a Salvadoran Latin Catholic prelate who was an Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador from 1982 to 2022. He was a close collaborator of the slain Archbishop Saint Óscar Romero. Pope Francis made ...

, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador in 1982,

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in 2017

Territorial losses

References

External links

* San Miguel San Miguel San Miguel 1913 establishments in El Salvador San Miguel, El Salvador Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of San Salvador {{RC-diocese-stub