From the bulletin of the Holy See Press Office, January 26th, 2023
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, presented by Bishop Angel Garachana Pérez, C.M.F.
The Holy Father has erected the ecclesiastical province of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, elevating the diocese to a metropolitan Church and assigning as suffragans the dioceses of La Ceiba, Gracias, Santa Rosa de Copán, Trujillo and Yoro.
The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Michael Leniham, O.F.M., as first metropolitan archbishop of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, transferring him from the diocese of La Ceiba, Honduras.
Curriculum vitae
Archbishop-elect Michael Leniham, O.F.M., was born on 22 September 1951 in Abbeyfeale, Ireland. He carried out his studies in philosophy at the National University of Galway and in theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
He gave his religious vows in the Order of Friars Minor on 17 September 1977, and was ordained a priest on 12 July 1980.
He has held the following offices: spiritual director of Multyfarnham College, Ireland; vicar of Wesford Convent, Ireland; parish vicar, guardian and parish priest of San Francisco in Gotera, Morazán, El Salvador; guardian and parish vicar of La Palma, Chalatenango, El Salvador; guardian and parish priest of Santos Martíres, Comayagua, Honduras; provincial definitor of the region of Honduras; vicar general of the diocese of Comayagua, Honduras; guardian of the Fraternity of Saint Bonaventure of the Provincial Curia of the Friars Minor and parish vicar of the Immaculado Corazón de María in Guatemala.
On 30 December 2011 he was appointed first bishop of La Ceiba, Honduras, and received episcopal consecration on 11 February 2012.