Diocese of Jalapa in Guatemala Dioecesis Ialapensis in Guatimala
Nuestra Señora de la Expectación cathedral
Location
Country	Guatemala
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Guatemala City
Statistics
Area	7,204 km2 (2,781 sq mi)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2010) 827,958 678,926 (82%)
Parishes	33
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	10 March 1951 (74 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady of Hope
Patron saint	Santa Cruz
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Bishop	José Benedicto Moscoso Miranda
Bishops emeritus	Julio Edgar Cabrera Ovalle
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TheDiocese of Jalapa is aLatin Church ecclesiastical territory ordiocese of theCatholic Church in southeasternGuatemala. It is asuffragan diocese in theecclesiastical province of themetropolitanArchdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala.

ItsMariancathedral isCatedral Nuestra Señora de la Expectación in theepiscopal see ofJalapa. The diocesanpatron isSanta Cruz (theHoly Cross).

It was erected on 10 March 1951, on territory split off from theArchdiocese of Guatemala, which remains its metropolitan.

On 25 January 2016 it lost territory to erect theDiocese of San Francisco de Asís de Jutiapa as fellowsuffragan of the Archdiocese of Guatemala.

• Miguel Angel García y Aráuz (1951.04.11 – retired 1987.01.29), previouslyTitular Bishop ofSophene (1944.05.16 – 1951.04.11) &Auxiliary Bishop ofArchdiocese of Guatemala (Guatemala) (1944.05.16 – 1951.04.11); alsoApostolic Administrator ofZacapa (Guatemala) (1951 – 1955.11.30)
• Jorge Mario Avila del Aguila,Lazarists (C.M.) (1987.01.29 – retired 2001.12.05), previouslyApostolic Administrator ofEl Petén (Guatemala) (1978.02.03 – 1984.02.03), Titular Bishop ofNasai (1982.12.03 – 1987.01.29),Apostolic Vicar ofEl Petén (Guatemala) (1984.02.03 – 1987.01.29)
• Julio Edgar Cabrera Ovalle (5 December 2001 – 30 March 2020),^[1] previously Bishop ofQuiché (Guatemala) (1986.10.31 – 2001.12.05)
• José Benedicto Moscoso Miranda (30 March 2020^[1] – present)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Gabriel Peñate Rodríguez, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Izabal in 2004
• Ángel Antonio Recinos Lemus. appointed Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas in 2016

• GigaCatholic, with incumbent biography links
• "Diocese of Jalapa".Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved2007-02-22.

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