Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia
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| Country | Costa Rica |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica |
| Diocesan bishop | Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Vittorino Girardi MCCJ |
| Vicar General | Óscar Valerio Vargas |
| founding | 1961 |
| surface | 11,720 km² |
| Parishes | 32 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Residents | 486.200 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics | 398,800 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| proportion of | 82% |
| Diocesan priest | 48 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 11 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 6,759 |
| Permanent deacons | 6 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Friars | 15 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 60 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral de Tilarán |
| Co-cathedral | Catedral de La Inmaculada Concepción in Liberia |
| Website | Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia ( Latin Dioecesis Tilaranensis-Liberian , Spanish diócesis de Tilarán-Liberia ) is one in Costa Rica situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Tilarán .
history
The diocese of Tilarán-Liberia was founded on July 22, 1961 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Qui Aeque from cession of territory by the diocese of Alajuela as the diocese of Tilarán and subordinated to the archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica as a suffragan diocese. The Diocese of Tilarán announced on July 25, 1995 parts of its territory to the founding of the Apostolic Constitution Maiori christifidelium erected Diocese of Ciudad Quesada from. Another area assignment took place on 17 April 1998 to the founding of the Apostolic Constitution Sacrorum Antistites erected Diocese of Puntarenas . On December 18, 2010, the diocese of Tilarán was renamed the Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Tilarán
- Román Arrieta Villalobos , 1961–1979, then Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
- Héctor Morera Vega , 1979-2002
- Vittorino Girardi MCCJ , 2002-2010
Bishops of Tilarán Liberia
- Vittorino Girardi MCCJ, 2010-2016
- Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora , since 2016
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See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia (Spanish)
- Entry on the Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II : Const. Apost. Maiori Christifidelium , AAS 87 (1995), n.12, p. 1086ff.
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Sacrorum Antistites , AAS 90 (1998), n.6, p. 381f.