Diocese of Escuintla
The Diocese of Escuintla is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Guatemala. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Guatemala. The Diocese of Escuintla was erected on 28 July 1994 from a territorial prelature.
Its cathedral is Catedral Nuestra Señora de Concepción, in the episcopal see of Escuintla.
History
It was established on 1969.05.09 as a Territorial Prelature of Escuintla on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Guatemala, which remains its metropolitan. On 28 July 1994 it was promoted to diocese.Bishops
Episcopal ordinaries
; Territorial Prelates of Escuintla- José Julio Aguilar García, Titular Bishop of Bononia, later Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- Mario Enrique Ríos Montt, Lazarists, Titular Bishop of Tiguala ; later Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala and Apostolic Administrator of Izabal
- Fernando Claudio Gamalero González
- Fernando Claudio Gamalero González
- Victor Hugo Palma Paúl, succeeded as previous Coadjutor Bishop of Escuintla
Coadjutor bishop
- Victor Hugo Palma Paúl