Kingston Archdiocese of Jamaica
| Kingston Archdiocese of Jamaica | |
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| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Jamaica |
| Diocesan bishop | Kenneth David Oswin Richards (appointed) |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop |
Edgerton Roland Clarke Donald James Reece Charles Henry Dufour |
| founding | 1837 |
| surface | 3,267 km² |
| Parishes | 31 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Residents | 1,470,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics | 59,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| proportion of | 4% |
| Diocesan priest | 25 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 26 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,157 |
| Permanent deacons | 35 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Friars | 193 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 90 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | Holy Trinity Cathedral |
| address | Archbishop's Residence 21 Hopefield Avenue P.O. Box 43 Kingston 6, Jamaica |
| Website | www.archdioceseofkingston.org |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan Mission sui juris Cayman Islands Diocese of Mandeville Diocese of Montego Bay |
The Erzbistum Kingston in Jamaica ( lat. : Archidioecesis Regiopolitana in Jamaica, ) is an in Jamaica preferred Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Kingston . It includes the county of Saint Catherine Parish and the county of Surrey in the east of the island.
history
The archbishopric was founded on January 10, 1837 with the breve "Ex munere pastoralis" by Pope Gregory XVI. Established from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate of Trinidad as the Apostolic Vicariate of Jamaica . On June 10, 1888, the Vicariate Apostolic Jamaica gave up parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of British Honduras . The Apostolic Vicariate of Jamaica was founded on February 29, 1956 by Pope Pius XII. raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Kingston . On September 14, 1967, the Diocese of Kingston gave parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Montego Bay .
The diocese was on September 14, 1967 by Pope Paul VI. with the Apostolic Constitution Christi gregem raised to the archbishopric and renamed the Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica . On April 15, 1991, the Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica gave parts of its territory to the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate Mandeville . A further assignment of territory took place on July 14, 2000 to establish the Mission sui juris Cayman Islands .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Jamaica
- Benito Fernández, OFM , 1837-1855
- James Eustace Dupeyron SJ , 1855-1872
- Joseph Sidney Woollett SJ, 1872–1877
- Thomas Porter SJ, 1877-1888
- Charles Menzies Gordon SJ, 1889-1906
- John Joseph Collins SJ, 1907-1918
- William O'Hare SJ, 1919-1926
- Joseph Dinand SJ, 1927-1930
- Thomas Addis Emmet SJ, 1930-1949
- John Joseph McEleney SJ, 1950-1956
Bishops of Kingston
- John Joseph McEleney SJ, 1956-1967
Archbishops of Kingston in Jamaica
- John Joseph McEleney SJ, 1967-1970
- Samuel Emmanuel Carter SJ, 1970-1994
- Edgerton Roland Clarke , 1994-2004
- Lawrence Aloysius Burke SJ, 2004-2008
- Donald James Reece , 2008-2011
- Charles Henry Dufour , 2011–2016
- Kenneth David Oswin Richards , since 2016
See also
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ The handbook Annuario Pontificio erroneously states in the 2016 edition an area of 1,262 km 2 . The archdiocese covers 1,262 square miles (hence the number), which is 3,267 square kilometers, see http://www.archdioceseofkingston.org/personnel.html , accessed December 20, 2016.
- ^ Colman Barry: Upon these rocks. Catholics in the Bahamas . St. John's Abbey Press, Collegeville 1973. ISBN 0-8146-0812-4 . P. 59.
- ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Christi gregem , AAS 60 (1968), n.4, p. 177f.