Roman Catholic Diocese of Danlí

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Danlí is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province (covering all Honduras) of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, with see at Danlí, in southern Honduras's El Paraíso department (but not its capital).

Diocese of Danlí Dioecesis Danliensis
Location
Country	Honduras
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Tegucigalpa
Statistics
Area	7,489 km2 (2,892 sq mi)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2020) 502,944 415,480 (82.6%)
Parishes	11
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	02 January 2017 (8 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral de la Inmaculata Concepción
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Bishop	Jose Antonio Canales Motiño
Metropolitan Archbishop	José Vicente Nácher Tatay
Map

Its cathedral episcopal is the Catedral de la Inmaculata Concepción, devoted to the Immaculate Conception, in Danlí.

History

The diocese was erected on 2 January 2017 by Pope Francis, on Honduran territory split off from that of its Metropolitan mother see, the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa. It was immediately subject to the Roman Congregation for Bishops, without a (semi-)missionary stage.^[1]

Episcopal ordinaries

Its first and present Suffragan Bishop is José Antonio Canales Motiño, bishop-elect since 2 January 2017, a secular cleric, born on 19 March 1962 in Honduras, ordained Priest on 12 October 1996.^[2]

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Honduras