Enciclopedia Cattolica

SANTAROSA DE COPÁN, DIOCESI DI

Santa Rosa de Copán, Diocese of

Volume X · p. 1087 · 1953

English translation · Testo originale italiano

SANTAROSA DE COPÁN, DIOCESI di. - Città e diocesi che comprende le province civili di S. Barbara, Copán, Lempira, Ocotepecque e Intibucá nel l'Honduras (America centrale).
SANTAROSA DE COPÁN, DIOCESI di. - Città e diocesi che comprende le province civili di S. Barbara, Copán, Lempira, Ocotepecque e Intibucá nel l'Honduras (America centrale).

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

SANTAROSA DE COPÁN, DIOCESE OF. – A city and diocese comprising the civil provinces of S. Barbara, Copán, Lempira, Ocotepeque, and Intibucá in Honduras (Central America).

It has an area of 16,700 sq. km. and a population of 509,740, all Catholic, with 24 parishes served by 26 diocesan priests and 5 regular clergy; it has a seminary, 2 male and 2 female religious communities (*Ann. Pont. 1952*, p. 364). The diocese was erected by Benedict XV on 2 Feb. 1916, by separation from the diocese of Comayagua, as a suffragan of Tegucigalpa.

SANT'ANTIMO — SANTAROSA-DEROSSI PIETRO (photo *Allanari*)

Eternal of the abbey, begun in 1118, completed in the 13th century — S. Antimo.

BIBL.: anon., s. V. in *Cath. Enc.*, Suppl., p. 679; AAS, 8 (1916), p. 62.