Diocese of San Vicente

The Diocese of San Vicente () 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 Vicente was erected on 18 December 1943.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Pedro Arnoldo Aparicio y Quintanilla, S.D.B. (1948–1983)
• José Oscar Barahona Castillo (1983–2005)
• José Luis Escobar Alas (2005–2008), appointed Archbishop of San Salvador
• José Elías Rauda Gutiérrez, O.F.M. (since 2009)

Auxiliary bishops

• José Oscar Barahona Castillo (1982–1983), appointed bishop here
• José Luis Escobar Alas (2002–2005), appointed bishop here

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca, appointed Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of El Salvador in 2008
• Constantino Barrera Morales, appointed Bishop of Sonsonate in 2012

Territorial losses

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