Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa
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Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa Archidioecesis Tegucigalpensis |
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Catedral Metropolitana de San Miguel de Arcángel
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| Location | |
| Country | Honduras |
| Ecclesiastical province | Tegucigalpa |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 15,167 km2 (5,856 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2010) 1,801,000 1,550,000 (86.1%) |
| Parishes | 56 |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 1561 (456 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Archbishop | Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B. |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, C.M.F. |
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa (erected 1561, as the Diocese of Comayagua) is the only Metropolitan see in Honduras, whose ecclesiastical province covers the whole country. It was elevated as the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa on 2 February 1916.
Its Cathedral archiepiscopal see is St. Mcihael Archangel (Catedral Metropolitana de San Miguel de Arcángel), in the national capital Tegucigalpa. It also has a Minor Basilica, National Shrine: Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Suyapa, also in Tegucigalpa, and Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.
It serves 1,684,000 Catholics (86.1% of 1,955,000 total per 2014) in 58 parishes, 3 missions, 156 priests (79 diocesan, 77 religious), 1 deacon, 417 lay religious (97 brothers, 320 sisters), 37 seminarians (2014)
Erected: 1561
Name changed and elevated: February 2, 1916 - technically the predecessor was suppressed.
Since its erection as archdiocese, it repeatedly had territory split-off to form its presnet suffragans, although not always imediatley as dioceses:
Coordinates: 14°06′20″N 87°12′15″W / 14.1055°N 87.2042°W
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