Roman Catholic Diocese of Santiago de María

Diocese of Santiago de María Dioecesis Sancti Iacobi de Maria
Location
Country	El Salvador
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San Salvador
Metropolitan	José Luis Escobar Alas
Statistics
Area	2,866 km2 (1,107 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 563,000 449,700 (79.9%)
Parishes	40
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	2 December 1954 (70 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. James the Apostle
Secular priests	85
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	William Ernesto Iraheta Rivera
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The Diocese of Santiago de María 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 Santiago de María was erected on 2 December 1954.

Ordinaries

• Francisco José Castro y Ramírez (1956–1974)
• Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (1974–1977), appointed Archbishop of San Salvador
• Arturo Rivera Damas, S.D.B. (1977–1983), appointed Archbishop of San Salvador
• Rodrigo Orlando Cabrera Cuéllar (1983–2016)
• William Ernesto Iraheta Rivera (2016– )

External links

• "Diocese of Santiago de María". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-16. ^{[self-published]}