Diocese of Pinar del Río

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Diocese of Pinar del Río
Map of the Diocese of Pinar del Río
Basic data
Country Cuba
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana
Diocesan bishop Juan de Dios Hernández Ruiz SJ
Emeritus diocesan bishop José Siro González Bacallao
Jorge Enrique Serpa Pérez
founding 1903
surface 13,500 km²
Parishes 25 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 )
Residents 873,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Catholics 816,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
proportion of 93.5%
Diocesan priest 21 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 )
Religious priest 5 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 )
Catholics per priest 31,385
Permanent deacons 4 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 )
Friars 6 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 )
Religious sisters 26 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Catedral de San Rosendo
Website http://diocesispinardelrio.net/dioces/dioces.php

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinar del Río ( lat. : Dioecesis Pinetensis ad Flumen ) is an on Cuba situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Pinar del Río .

history

The diocese of Pinar del Río was on February 20, 1903 by Pope Leo XIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Actae Preclara from cessions of territory of the diocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba as a suffragan diocese. On January 6, 1925, the Diocese of Pinar del Río was subordinated to the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana as a suffragan.

San Rosendo
Cathedral in Pinar del Río

Bishops of Pinar del Río

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