Diocese of Ponce
Diocese of Ponce | |
Basic data | |
---|---|
Country | United States |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico |
Diocesan bishop | Rubén Antonio González Medina CMF |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Félix Lázaro Martinez SchP |
founding | 1924 |
surface | 830 km² |
Parishes | 43 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
Residents | 634,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
Catholics | 493,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
proportion of | 77.8% |
Diocesan priest | 85 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
Religious priest | 36 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 4,074 |
Permanent deacons | 100 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
Friars | 47 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 168 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language |
Spanish occasionally English |
cathedral | Catedral Nuestra Senora de la Guadalupe |
Website | http://www.diocesisdeponce.org |
Ecclesiastical province | |
The Diocese of Ponce ( lat. : Dioecesis Poncensis ) is in Puerto Rico situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Ponce .
history
The diocese of Ponce was founded on November 21, 1924 by Pope Pius XI. established with the Apostolic Constitution Ad Sacrosancti Apostolatus Officium from cessions of territory of the diocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico as a suffragan . On April 30, 1960, the Diocese of Ponce gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Arecibo . The diocese of Ponce gave on November 4, 1964 parts of its territory to establish the diocese of Caguas . Another assignment of territory took place on March 1, 1976 to establish the diocese Mayagüez .
Bishops of Ponce
- Edwin Vincent Byrne , 1925–1929, then Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
- Aloysius Joseph Willinger CSsR , 1929–1946, then Coadjutor Bishop of Monterey-Fresno
- James Edward McManus CSsR, 1947–1963
- Luis Aponte Martínez , 1963–1964, then Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
- Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver , 1964-2000
- Ricardo Antonio Suriñach Carreras , 2000-2003
- Félix Lázaro Martinez SchP , 2003-2015
- Rubén Antonio González Medina CMF , since 2015
See also
Web links
Commons : Diocese of Ponce - Collection of images, videos and audio files