Diocese of Mandeville
| Diocese of Mandeville | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Jamaica |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Kingston Archdiocese of Jamaica |
| Diocesan bishop | John Derek Persaud (appointed) |
| Apostolic Administrator | Charles Henry Dufour |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Gordon Dunlap Bennett SJ |
| founding | 1991 |
| surface | 3,238 km² |
| Parishes | 20 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 595.110 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 5,870 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 1 % |
| Diocesan priest | 15 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 5 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 294 |
| Permanent deacons | 4 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 10 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 21 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | St. Paul of the Cross Pro-Cathedral |
| address | PO Box 197, Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica, WI |
| Website | www.mandevillediocese.org |
The Diocese of Mandeville ( Latin : Dioecesis Mandevillensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Mandeville in Jamaica . It includes the parishs : Saint Elizabeth , Manchester and Clarendon .
history
With the Apostolic Constitution Mandevillensis, Pope John Paul II founded the Apostolic Vicariate of Mandeville on April 15, 1991 from cessions of territory of the diocese of Montego Bay and Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica and made it subject to this as a suffragan diocese .
On November 21, 1997, it was made a diocese.
Ordinaries
Vicar Apostolic of Mandeville
- Paul Michael Boyle CP (April 15, 1991– November 21, 1997)
Bishops of Mandeville
- Paul Michael Boyle CP (November 21, 1997– July 6, 2004)
- Gordon Dunlap Bennett SJ (July 6, 2004- August 8, 2006)
- Neil Edward Tiedemann CP (May 20, 2008– April 29, 2016), then Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn
- John Derek Persaud since June 19, 2020