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San Pedro Sula San Pedro Sula () is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 701, ...

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Location

The cathedral is located on a block along 1 Calle in San Pedro Sula,Gary Chandler, Liza Prado, ''Honduras & the Bay Islands'',

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History

The cathedral was built in 1949. It was designed in the Mission Revival architecture, Mission Revival architectural style by architect José Francisco Zalazar. It is named for

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. It is one of the main cathedrals in Honduras, where most of the population is Roman Catholic. In 2023 it was elevated to Metropolitan see as Pope Francis created the Ecclesiastical Province of San Pedro Sula, transforming the Diocese into a Metropolitan see of the new Archdiocese of San Pedro Sula Christine Zuchora-Walske, ''Honduras in Pictures'', Minneapolis, Minnesota: Twenty-First Century Books, 2009, p. 8

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." It is decorated with hand-carved wooden statues and religious paintings of Saints.

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