Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Ana

Roman Catholic diocese in El Salvador

Diocese of Santa Ana

Dioecesis Sanctae Annae

Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana

Location
Country| El Salvador
Ecclesiastical province| Province of San Salvador
Metropolitan| José Luis Escobar Alas
Statistics
Area| 3,272 km2 (1,263 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics| (as of 2014)
1,533,000
985,000 (64.3%)
Parishes| 58
Information
Denomination| Catholic Church
Sui iuris church| Latin Church
Rite| Roman Rite
Established| 11 February 1913 (111 years ago)
Cathedral| Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana
Secular priests| 113
Current leadership
Pope| Francis
Bishop| Miguel Angel Moran Aquino
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The Diocese of Santa Ana is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador. The Diocese of Santa Ana was erected on 11 February 1913.

## Bishops[edit]

### Ordinaries[edit]

* Giacomo Richardo Vilanova y Meléndez (1914–1953)
* Benjamin Barrera y Reyes, M.I. (1954–1981)
* Marco René Revelo Contreras (1981–1998)
* Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M. (1999–2016)
* Miguel Angel Moran Aquino (2016– )

### Auxiliary bishops[edit]

* Benjamin Barrera y Reyes, M.J. (1952–1954), appointed Bishop of Santa Ana
* Lorenzo Michele Joseph Graziano, O.F.M. (1961-1965), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of San Miguel
* Fernando Sáenz Lacalle, O.F.M. (1984–1995), appointed Archbishop of San Salvador
* Luis Morao Andreazza, O.F.M. (2003–2007), appointed Bishop of Chalatenango
* José Elías Rauda Gutiérrez, O.F.M. (2008–2009), appointed Bishop of San Vicente

## Territorial losses[edit]

Year | Along with | To form

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1986 |  | Diocese of Sonsonate

## External links and references[edit]

* "Diocese of Santa Ana". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-24.

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