Military Ordinariate of El Salvador
The Military Ordinariate in El Salvador is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or military ordinariate of the Catholic Church with jurisdiction over Catholics serving in the Armed Forces of El Salvador. While not a diocese, the ordinary of the ordinariate is a bishop. The ordinariate is exempt directly to the Holy See and the Roman Congregation for Bishops.
It is headquartered Calle Los Eucaliptos y Avda. Las Gardenias 157, Colonia Las Mercedes in San Salvador, the national capital of El Salvador, in Central America.
History
It was established as a Military vicariate of El Salvador on 25 March 1968, with the first military vicar appointed on 4 November 1968.It was elevated to a military ordinariate on 21 July 1986.
According to an online news brief from Catholic News Service posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2012, Bishop Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca and former guerrilla commander Raul Mijango mediated a truce between El Salvador's two most prominently violent gangs, MS-13 and Barrio 18 which had roots in civil war-era young Salvadorans who illegally entered the U.S. and experienced the gangs there before deportation, and the government.
Statistics
As per 2014, it provides pastoral care to Roman Catholics serving in the Armed Forces of El Salvador and their families in 37 parishes with 38 priests and 6 seminarians.Ordinaries
;Military Vicar of El Salvador- José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez, C.M., Titular Bishop of Tabunia, also Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador
- José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez, Congregation of the Mission, also Bishop of [Roman Catholic Diocese of Roman Catholic Diocese of San Miguel (El Salvador)|San Miguel (El Salvador)|San Miguel] and President of Episcopal Conference of El Salvador, died 2000
- Roberto Joaquín Ramos Umaña, Titular Bishop of Sebarga Apostolic Administrator Fernando Sáenz Lacalle, while first Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Ana and Titular Bishop of Tabbora, later Metropolitan Archbishop of San Salvador and President of Episcopal Conference of El Salvador Apostolic Administrator Father Luis Morao Andreazza, Friars Minor, later Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Ana and Titular Bishop of Tullia, then Bishop of Chalatenango Apostolic Administrator Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca
- Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca ; also Apostolic Administrator of Sonsonate ; appointed Bishop of San Miguel 2017.12.07
- Reinaldo Sorto Martínez ; Priest of San Salvador