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The iconic Jesus statue Monumento al Divino Salvador del Mundo, a landmark located in the country's capital, San Salvador.. According to the World Religion Database 2020, 96.68% of the population has a Christian background and 2.57% is non-religious (atheist or agnostic); 0.57% follow ethnic religions.
Archbishop Luis Chávez y González from 1939 to 1977 encouraged priests to study farming cooperatives and made efforts toward improving the poorest sectors of El Salvador [3] (although in other respects he was a conservative who favored film censorship, [4] staunchly opposed Communism, [5] and was devoted to Pope Pius XII).
The Comunidad Israelita de El Salvador (Hebrew: בית כנסת, lit. 'Jewish Community of El Salvador') is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue , located in San Salvador , the capital of El Salvador .
The Catholic Church in El Salvador comprises only a Latin hierarchy, joint in the national episcopal conference (Conferencia Episcopal de El Salvador, CEDES), consisting of one ecclesiastical province headed by the Metropolitan archbishop (in the capital) with seven suffragan dioceses, each headed by a bishop; a military ordinariate for the ...
The Archdiocese of San Salvador is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. Its archepiscopal see is the Salvadoran capital, San Salvador, and the surrounding region. The current Archbishop of San Salvador is José Luis Escobar Alas.
Mennonites in El Salvador belong to two different groups of Mennonites: the Iglesia Menonita de El Salvador with its center at Metapán in the department of Chalatenango and the Iglesia Evangélica Menonita which belongs to the Beachy Amish. El Salvador has the second largest Mennonite population in Central America, after Belize.
The second wooden cathedral, completed in 1888, served as the seat of San Salvador's archbishops. On August 8, 1951, the Old San Salvador Cathedral was consumed by fire as a distraught crowd of onlookers watched. [1] For the next forty years, the San Salvador Cathedral was a barren concrete structure of exposed bricks and jutting iron buttresses.
The St. Vincent Cathedral [1] (Spanish: Catedral de San Vicente) Also San Vicente Cathedral Is the name that receives a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church that is located in front of the Central Park in Daniel Diaz street near the Antonio José Cañas Park of the city of San Vicente in the department of the same name, part of the Central American country of El Salvador.