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Jesús Nazareno de la Humildad: San Cristóbal el Bajo: 11:00 am – 10:00 pm Holy Thursday Jesús Nazareno del Perdón: San Francisco el Grande: 1:00 pm 12:00 am Good Friday Jesús Nazareno de la Penitencia: La Merced: 4:00 am – 3:00 pm Good Friday Acto de Crucifixión: Parroquia de San José Catedral, Escuela de Cristo: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
It was erected 10 March 1951, as the Diocese of Zacapa, on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Guatemala (still its Metropolitan].. On 16 September 1956, it lost territory to establish the Territorial Prelature of Santo Cristo de Esquipulas, and again on 30 April 1968 to establish the then Apostolic Administration of Izabal.
The Catholic Church in Guatemala is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under spiritual leadership of the Pope, Curia in Rome and the Episcopal Conference of Guatemala. There are approximately 7.7 [ 1 ] million Catholics in Guatemala , which is about 46% of the total population of 17.1 million citizens.
The Roman Catholic Church in Guatemala forms a single, entirely Latin Episcopal conference.. It comprises two ecclesiastical provinces (each headed by a Metropolitan Archbishop, with a total of 11 suffragan dioceses), three missionary pre-diocesan jurisdictions: one territorial prelature and two Apostolic vicariates, each headed by a (residential or titular) Bishop.
If you'd prefer to watch the midnight mass live, you can stream it on the Vatican Youtube Channel. The Mass begins Dec. 24, at 1:30 p.m. ET ( 7:30 p.m. Central European Standard Time).
Its cathedral is the Catedral Primada Metropolitana de Santiago, is the episcopal see in the national capital Ciudad de Guatemala. It also has the former Cathedral, a World Heritage Site: Catedral de San José, Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez; a Minor Basilica, National Shrine: Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Ciudad de Guatemala ...
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Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (born July 16, 1947) is a Guatemalan prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of Huehuetenango since 2012. He was the Bishop of San Marcos from 1988 to 2012. Pope Francis raised him to the rank of cardinal on 5 October 2019.