Military Ordinariate of El Salvador

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Military Ordinariate in El Salvador

Ordinariato Militar en El Salvador
Location
CountryEl Salvador
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established25 March 1968 (57 years ago)
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop Reinaldo Sorto Martínez

The Military Ordinariate in El Salvador (Spanish : Ordinariato Militar en 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.

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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 (CNS) 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 (Mara Salvatrucha) 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. [1]

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 (diocesan) and 6 seminarians.

Ordinaries

Military Vicar of El Salvador
Military Ordinaries of El Salvador

See also

References

  1. "Cindy Wooden of CNS wins St. Francis de Sales Award". 10 June 2021. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012.