As with the rest of Honduras, Roman Catholicism is the dominating
religion in the Central District and while at some point they made up as much
as 95 percent of the population, contemporary estimates as recent as 2007 put
them at 47 percent while Protestants make up as much as 36 percent. Their
history in Tegucigalpa began around 1548 with the Spanish setting up Mercedarian
missionaries as part of their conversion
