The Catholic Church in Honduras is part of the worldwide
Catholic Church
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, under the spiritual leadership of the
Pope
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in
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
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.
There are over four million Catholics
in
Honduras - around three quarters of the total population. The country is divided into eight
diocese
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 associa ...
s, including one
archdiocese. According to the Latinobarómetro in 2018, 37% of the country is Catholic, 39% Protestant, 21% Unaffiliated and 3% Others.
See also
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Episcopal Conference of Honduras
The Episcopal Conference of Honduras ( es, Conferencia Episcopal de Honduras, italic=unset) is an institution of the Catholic Church that brings together the bishops of Honduras to establish policies and programs for pastoral government.
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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 capi ...
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List of Central American and Caribbean Saints
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Religion in Honduras
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Roman Catholic 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.[< ...]
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References
Honduras
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