Although the dominant religion in Guatemala is historically Roman Catholicism, in recent decades other Christian denominations have gained adherents there.
The state orphanage of Hogar Rafael Ayau, established in 1857, was privatized and transferred to their care in 1996.
Amfilohije, Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral and the Administrator of South-Central America, came to Amatitlán to greet Mother Inés.
Eventually, the group's leader, Father Andrés Girón, who had previously served as a congressional representative,[5]: 141 as a senator in 1991[6] and as an ambassador to the United Nations, left the Roman Catholic Church over tensions related to his support for land reform and their support for "liturgical reform".
[a] Girón and his followers, who numbered between 10,000 and 100,000,[7] first joined the Society of clerks secular of Saint Basil,[8][b] and later moved towards Orthodoxy, being received into the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2010.