Roman Catholic Diocese of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zacapa is a Latin suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Guatemala.
Its cathedral episcopal see is catedral San Pedro, in Zacapa. It also had a virtual Co-cathedral, Basílica del Cristo Negro de Esquipulas, which is officially still the cathedral of the Territorial Prelature of Santo Cristo de Esquipulas.

History

It was erected 10 March 1951, as the Diocese of Zacapa, on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Guatemala united aeque principaliter with the Territorial Prelature of Santo Cristo de Esquipulas on 24 June 1986 and since assumed the name Diocese of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas.
It enjoyed a papal visit from Pope John Paul II in February 1996.

Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries