Roman Catholic Church in Costa Rica

The Roman Catholic Church in Costa Rica is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church .

history

The Spanish colonies established in the area of ​​today's Costa Rica from 1522 and only existed for a short time were initially subject to the diocese of Santa María de La Antigua del Darién , from 1534 to the diocese of León en Nicaragua . In 1850 today's Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica was founded as the Diocese of San José de Costa Rica .

The Universidad Católica De Costa Rica in Moray is the only Catholic university in the country and was founded in 1993.

organization

The Roman Catholic Church in Costa Rica is divided into an ecclesiastical province with an archbishopric and 7 dioceses.

The Catholic Church in Costa Rica is represented by the Conferencia Episcopal de Costa Rica (CECOR). The chairman of the Bishops' Conference is Hugo Barrantes Ureña . Apostolic Nuncio has been Archbishop Bruno Musarò since August 2019 .

Around 3.2 million people (around 75% of the total population) of Costa Rica are Catholics. The Catholic religion is not a state religion, but it has great social and political influence.

Dioceses in Costa Rica

• Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica : Diocese of Alajuela , Diocese of Cartago , Diocese of Ciudad Quesada , Diocese of Limón , Diocese of Puntarenas , Diocese of San Isidro de El General , Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia

See also

• Particular church
• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses

Web links

• Entry about Costa Rica on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
• Website of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica (Spanish)

Footnotes

1. ^ Jean-Pierre Bastian and others (ed.): Religious change in Costa Rica. A social science interpretation . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-7867-2314-1 , pp. 66-68.