Diocese of Caguas

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Diocese of Caguas
Map of the Bishopric of Caguas
Basic data
Country United States
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico
Diocesan bishop Eusebio Ramos Morales (appointed)
Emeritus diocesan bishop Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera
founding 1964
surface 1,274 km²
Parishes 34 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Residents 648,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Catholics 507,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
proportion of 78.2%
Diocesan priest 42 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Religious priest 28 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Catholics per priest 7,243
Permanent deacons 104 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Friars 34 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Religious sisters 92 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
occasionally English
cathedral Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús
Website http://home.coqui.net/obicag
Ecclesiastical province
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The Diocese of Caguas ( lat. : Dioecesis Caguana ) is in Puerto Rico situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Caguas .

history

The diocese of Caguas was on November 4, 1964 by Pope Paul VI. established with the Apostolic Constitution Quod munus from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico and the Diocese of Ponce and subordinated to the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico as a suffragan . On March 11, 2008, the diocese of Caguas gave parts of its territory to establish the diocese of Fajardo-Humacao .

Bishops of Caguas

See also

Web links

Cathedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús in Caguas

Individual evidence

  1. Paul VI: Const. Apost. Quod munus , AAS 57 (1965), n.9, p. 625ff.