Diocese of San Miguel (El Salvador)

The Diocese of San Miguel () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Salvador. The Diocese of San Miguel was erected on 11 February 1913.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Juan Antonio Dueñas y Argumedo (1913–1941)
• Miguel Angel Machado y Escobar (1942–1968)
• Lorenzo Michele Joseph Graziano, O.F.M. (1968–1969)
• José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez, C.M. (1969–1997)
• Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M. (1997–1999), appointed Bishop of Santa Ana
• Miguel Angel Morán Aquino (2000–2016), appointed Bishop of Santa Ana
• Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca (2017–present)

Coadjutor bishops

• Lorenzo Michele Joseph Graziano, O.F.M. (1965–1968)
• Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M. (1996–1997)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Gregorio Rosa Chávez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador in 1982, cardinal in 2017

Territorial losses

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