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5 unusual facts about Roman Catholicism in El Salvador


Roman Catholicism in El Salvador

Fernando Sáenz Lacalle, originally of Opus Dei, is the current Archbishop of San Salvador.

The most well-known figure in the El Salvadoran church's history is Archbishop of San Salvador Óscar Romero.

A prominent seminary is San José de la Montaña in San Salvador where both Romero and liberation theologian Rutilio Grande studied.

San Salvador was made an archdiocese on February 11, 1913 with Monsignor Antonio Adolfo Perez as first Archbishop.

Catholicism began in the nation in the sixteenth century with the invasion y Pedro de Alvarado.



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