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St. John the Baptist Cathedral (El Salvador) / 14.04139°N 88.93917°W / 14.04139; -88.93917. St. John the Baptist Cathedral ( Spanish: Catedral San Juan Bautista ), also known as the Chalatenango Cathedral ( Catedral de Chalatenango ), is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
Catholic Church by country. The Catholic Church in El Salvador is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome and the Episcopal Conference of El Salvador. There are almost 5 million Catholics in El Salvador. The country is divided into eight dioceses including one archdiocese, San Salvador.
The building was designed as a Neo-Gothic cathedral, in contrast to the Spanish colonial style of most of the cathedrals in El Salvador and the rest of Latin America.It is formed by three naves, which are of the following measures: the central nave with 22 meters in length and 22 meters in width, the lateral naves measure 2 meters in length and eight meters in width; together the three naves ...
St. Stephen's Church (Iglesia San Esteban) is a historic Roman Catholic church in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador. It belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador and its patron saint is the protomartyr, St. Stephen. Built 1880–1890, it was heavily damaged during the January 2001 and February 2001 El Salvador earthquakes, and ...
Religion in El Salvador (2022 estimate) [1] Catholicism (41.9%) Protestantism (35.9%) Other Christian (1.7%) No religion (19.9%) Others (0.6%) St. Anne's Cathedral in Santa Ana. Christianity is the predominant religion in El Salvador, [2] with Catholicism and Protestantism being its main denominations. The Catholic share of the population is on ...
The iconic statue of Christ on the globe sphere of planet Earth is part of the Monument to Divino Salvador del Mundo on Plaza El Salvador del Mundo (The Savior of the World Plaza). The statue was damaged in the 1986 San Salvador earthquake. [3][4] It was rebuilt and put back in place months after the campaign "Lift up your soul Salvadoran".
José Matías Delgado y de León (24 February 1767 – 12 November 1832) was a Salvadoran priest and doctor known as El Padre de la Patria Salvadoreña (The Father of the Salvadoran Fatherland). [1] He was a prominent leader in the independence movement of El Salvador from the Spanish Empire. From 28 November 1821 to 9 February 1823, he served ...
The eastern periphery of Plaza Barrios is the old National Palace building. The first cathedral was established in 1842 and destroyed in an 1873 earthquake. The second wooden cathedral, completed in 1888, served as the seat of San Salvador's archbishops. On August 8, 1951, the Old San Salvador Cathedral was consumed by fire as a distraught ...