Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Yoro
Roman Catholic Diocese of Yoro
Roman Catholic diocese in Honduras
The (Roman Catholic) Diocese of Yoro (Latin: Dioecesis Yorensis) covers the department Yoro in Honduras. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San Pedro Sula.
The diocese was erected on 19 September 2005 with territory taken from the archdiocese of Tegucigalpa and was a suffragan of that archdiocese until the erection of the metropolitan province of San Pedro Sula in 2023. Jean-Louis Giasson, P.M.E. was appointed as the first bishop of the diocese. The Cathedral in the city of El Progreso, Yoro.