Roman Catholic Diocese of Juticalpa

Diocese of Juticalpa Dioecesis Iuticalpensis
Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción
Location
Country	Honduras
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Tegucigalpa
Metropolitan	Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B.
Statistics
Area	24,351 km2 (9,402 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 546,129 491,201 (89.9%)
Parishes	13
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	6 March 1949 (75 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	José Bonello, O.F.M.
Bishops emeritus	Tomás Andrés Mauro Muldoon, O.F.M.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Juticalpa (erected 6 March 1949, as the Territorial Prelature of Inmaculada Concepción de la B.V.M. en Olancho) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa. It was elevated as the Diocese of Juticalpa on 31 October 1987.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Bernardino N. Mazzarella, O.F.M. (1954–1963)
• Nicholas D'Antonio Salza, O.F.M. (1963–1977)
• Tomás Andrés Mauro Muldoon, O.F.M. (1983–2012)
• José Bonello, O.F.M. (2012–)

Coadjutor bishop

• José Bonello, O.F.M. (2010-2012)

See also

• Catholic Church in Honduras
• Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Juticalpa

References

External links

• "Diocese of Juticalpa". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-03-02. ^{[self-published]}

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