The Roman Catholic Diocese of Danlí is a Latin

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bishopric in the

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(covering all

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) of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, with see at Danlí, in southern Honduras's

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(but not its capital). Its

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episcopal is the Catedral de la Inmaculata Concepción, devoted to the

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, in Danlí.

History

The diocese was erected on 2 January 2017 by

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, on Honduran territory split off from that of its Metropolitan mother see, the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa. It was immediately subject to the Roman

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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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since 2 January 2017, a secular cleric, born on 19 March 1962 in Honduras, ordained Priest on 12 October 1996.

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Roman Catholic dioceses in Honduras Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Tegucigalpa {{RC-diocese-stub

History

Episcopal ordinaries

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