The Territorial Prelature of Santo Cristo de Esquípulas ( la, Praelatura Territorialis SS.D.N.I.C. de Esquipulas) is a

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located in the city of

Esquipulas Esquipulas (Nahuatl: Isquitzuchil, "place where flowers abound"), officially Municipality of Esquipulas, whose original name was Yzquipulas, is a town, with a population of 18,667 (2018 census), and a municipality located in the department of Chi ...

Chiquimula Chiquimula is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of Chiquimula and the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is located some 174 km from Guatemala City and within Guatemala known as "La per ...

in Guatemala.

History

* September 16, 1956: Established as Territorial Prelature of Santo Cristo de Esquípulas from the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Zacapa The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zacapa (y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas) is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Guatemala. Its cathedral episcopal see is catedral San Pedro (dedicated to saint Peter), in Za ...

Special churches

*Minor Basilicas: ** Basílica del Cristo Negro de Esquipulas, Esquipulas, Chiquimula

Leadership

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of Santo Cristo de Esquípulas (Roman rite) ** Archbishop

Mariano Rossell y Arellano Mariano Rossell y Arellano (18 July 1894, Esquipulas, Guatemala - 10 December 1964, Guatemala City) was a Guatemalan Roman Catholic clergyman. He was the fifteenth archbishop of Guatemala from 1939 to 1964 and the first Prelate Nullius of Esqui ...

(1956) ** Bishop Costantino Cristiano Luna Pianegonda, O.F.M. (September 16, 1956 – February 16, 1980) ** Bishop

Rodolfo Quezada Toruño Rodolfo Ignacio Quezada Toruño (8 March 1932 – 4 June 2012) was a Guatemalan cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Guatemala City, having previously served as Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas from 1980 to 2001. ...

(later

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) (June 24, 1986 – June 19, 2001) ** Bishop

José Aníbal Casasola Sosa José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

(May 13, 2004 – April 27, 2007) ** Bishop Rosolino Bianchetti Boffelli (November 20, 2008 – present)

References

GCatholic.org

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