Diocese of Caguas
Diocese of Caguas | |
Basic data | |
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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 | |
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
- Rafael Grovas Felix , 1965–1981
- Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera , 1981-1998
- Ruben Antonio González Medina CMF , 2000–2015, then Bishop of Ponce
- Eusebio Ramos Morales , since 2017
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Quod munus , AAS 57 (1965), n.9, p. 625ff.