Diocese of Limón

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Diocese of Limón
Map of the Diocese of Limón
Basic data
Country Costa Rica
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica
Diocesan bishop Javier Gerardo Román Arias
founding 1921
surface 9,188 km²
Parishes 15 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 335.162 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 273,394 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 81.6%
Diocesan priest 21 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 2 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 11,887
Friars 3 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 31 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Catedral del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús
Website http://orbita.starmedia.com/diocesislimon
Cathedral in Puerto Limón

The diocese of Limón ( Latin Dioecesis Limonensis , Spanish diócesis de Limón ) is in Costa Rica situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Puerto Limón .

history

The diocese of Limón was on February 16, 1921 by Pope Benedict XV. established with the Apostolic Constitution Praedecessorum from cession of territory of the Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica as the Apostolic Vicariate Limón .

The Apostolic Vicariate Limón was elevated to a diocese on December 30, 1994 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Cum Vicariatus Apostolicus and subordinated to the Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica as a suffragan diocese. On 24 May 2005 the diocese of Limón were parts of its territory to the founding of the Apostolic Constitution contingit Saepe erected Diocese of Cartago from.

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Limón

Bishops of Limón

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Limón  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Cum Vicariatus Apostolicus , AAS 87 (1995), n.4, p. 338ff.
  2. ↑ Benedictus XVI : Const. Apost. Saepe contingit , AAS 97 (2005), n.6, p. 772f.