The Diocese of La Ceiba is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Honduras. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Pedro Sula. The diocese was erected on 30 December 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI.

History

  • Erected 30 December 2011 as a suffragan see of Tegucigalpa
  • Transferred 26 January 2023 to the newly created metropolitan province of San Pedro Sula

Bishops

  • Michael Lenihan, OFM (30 December 2011 – 26 January 2023), made the first archbishop of San Pedro Sula

See also

References

15°47′00″N 86°47′27″W / 15.7833°N 86.7909°W / 15.7833; -86.7909


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