Diocese of La Ceiba
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, made the first archbishop of San Pedro Sula
- Jenry Johel Velásquez Hernández