Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Ana

The Diocese of Santa Ana 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 Santa Ana was erected on 11 February 1913.

Diocese of Santa Ana Dioecesis Sanctae Annae
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana
Location
Country	El Salvador
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San Salvador
Metropolitan	José Luis Escobar Alas
Statistics
Area	3,272 km2 (1,263 sq mi)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2014) 1,533,000 985,000 (64.3%)
Parishes	58
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	11 February 1913 (112 years ago)
Cathedral	The Cathedral of Our Lady Saint Anne
Secular priests	113
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Bishop	Miguel Angel Moran Aquino
Bishops emeritus	Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M
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Bishops

Ordinaries

• Giacomo Richardo Vilanova y Meléndez (1914–1953)
• Benjamin Barrera y Reyes, M.I. (1954–1981)
• Marco René Revelo Contreras (1981–1998)
• Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M. (1999–2016)
• Miguel Angel Moran Aquino (2016– )

Auxiliary bishops

• Benjamin Barrera y Reyes, M.J. (1952–1954), appointed Bishop of Santa Ana
• Lorenzo Michele Joseph Graziano, O.F.M. (1961-1965), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of San Miguel
• Fernando Sáenz Lacalle, O.F.M. (1984–1995), appointed Archbishop of San Salvador
• Luis Morao Andreazza, O.F.M. (2003–2007), appointed Bishop of Chalatenango
• José Elías Rauda Gutiérrez, O.F.M. (2008–2009), appointed Bishop of San Vicente

Territorial losses

Year	Along with	To form
1986		Diocese of Sonsonate

External links and references

• "Diocese of Santa Ana". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-24.