Roman Catholic Diocese of Danlí

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Danlí is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, with see at Danlí, in southern Honduras's El Paraíso department.
Its cathedral episcopal is the Catedral de la Inmaculata Concepción, devoted to the Immaculate Conception, in Danlí.

History

The diocese was erected on 2 January 2017 by Pope Francis, on Honduran territory split off from that of its Metropolitan mother see, the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa. It was immediately subject to the Roman Congregation for Bishops, without a missionary stage.

Episcopal ordinaries

Its first ordinary was José Antonio Canales Motiño, appointed on 2 January 2017, a secular cleric. He was born on 19 March 1962 in Honduras and ordained a priest on 12 October 1996. He retired on 10 October 2025.