Archdiocese of Port of Spain
| Archdiocese of Port of Spain | |
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| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Diocesan bishop | Charles Jason Gordon |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop |
Edward Joseph Gilbert CSsR Joseph Everard Harris CSSp |
| founding | February 22, 1818 |
| surface | 5,128 km² |
| Parishes | 62 (December 31, 2015 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 1,349,667 (Dec. 31, 2015 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 291,528 (Dec. 31, 2015 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 21.6% |
| Diocesan priest | 46 (Dec. 31, 2015 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 60 (Dec. 31, 2015 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 2,750 |
| Permanent deacons | 19 (Dec. 31, 2015 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 70 (Dec. 31, 2015 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 138 (Dec. 31, 2015 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception |
| Website | http://catholictt.org |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Bridgetown Diocese of Georgetown Diocese of Kingstown Diocese of Paramaribo Diocese of Willemstad |
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The Archdiocese of Port of Spain ( Latin Archidioecesis Portus Hispaniae , English Archdiocese of Port of Spain ) is a Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Port of Spain . It was built in 1850 and covers the state of Trinidad and Tobago with a total area of 5,128 km² and 1,311,000 inhabitants, of which 288,000 are Catholics (22%).
history
Pope Leo X founded the Trinidad Territorial Abbey in 1516 , which was abandoned in 1650. Pius VII founded the Apostolic Vicariate of Trinidad on February 23, 1818 from cessions of territory from the diocese of Santo Tomás de Guayana .
On January 10, 1837 it gave due to the Breve "Ex munere pastoralis" part of its territory in favor of the newly established Apostolic Vicariate of Jamaica . On April 30, 1850, another part of the previous district was given to the newly established diocese of Roseau . At the same time it was elevated to a metropolitan bishopric. In the last third of the 19th century and in the first two thirds of the 20th century, pastoral care in the Archdiocese of Port of Spain was largely shaped by Irish Dominicans , from whose ranks the archbishops and a large part of the clergy came.
On February 20, 1956, the island of Grenada and the southern Grenadines were released to re-establish the diocese of Saint George's in Grenada .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Trinidad
- James Buckley (March 6, 1819– March 26, 1828)
- Daniel McDonnell (December 23, 1828– October 26, 1844)
- Patrick Richard Smith (1844-1850)
Archbishops of Port of Spain
- Patrick Richard Smith (1850-1852)
- Vincent Spaccapietra CM (1855-1859)
- Ferdinand Italiano (September 28, 1860– September 19, 1862)
- Joachim-Hyacinthe Gonin OP (December 21, 1863– March 13, 1889)
- Patrick Vincent Flood OP (March 8, 1889– May 17, 1907)
- John Pius Dowling OP (March 9, 1909- June 6, 1940)
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Patrick Finbar Ryan OP (June 6, 1940- May 24, 1966)
- William Michael Fitzgerald OP, Titular Bishop of Zarna and Auxiliary Bishop in Port of Spain, was Apostolic Administrator of Port of Spain from 1966 to 1967 .
- Gordon Anthony Pantin CSSp (November 29, 1967– March 11, 2000)
- Edward Joseph Gilbert CSsR (March 21, 2001– December 26, 2011)
- Joseph Everard Harris CSSp (December 26, 2011– October 19, 2017)
- Charles Jason Gordon (since October 19, 2017)
Footnotes
- ^ Colman Barry: Upon these rocks. Catholics in the Bahamas . St. John's Abbey Press, Collegeville 1973. ISBN 0-8146-0812-4 . P. 59.
- ↑ Kwynn Johnson: Extracts from the archives of the Irish Dominicans in Trinidad and Tobago, 1895-2018 . Incorporated Trustees of the Dominican Fathers in Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain 2018.
