Roman Catholic Diocese of Caguas
Diocese of Caguas Dioecesis Caguana Diócesis de Caguas | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Puerto Rico |
| Territory | East and Southeast portions of the island of Puerto Rico |
| Ecclesiastical province | San Juan de Puerto Rico |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 492 sq mi (1,270 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2013) 643,000 503,000 (78.2%) |
| Parishes | 34 Number of parishes in the diocese |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 4 November 1964 (59 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús |
| Patron saint | María, Madre de la Iglesia (Mary, Mother of the Church) |
| Secular priests | 43 Number of priests in the diocese |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Eusebio Ramos Morales |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Roberto González Nieves, O.F.M. Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico |
| Bishops emeritus | Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caguas (Latin: Dioecesis Caguana) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean and consists of the east and southeast part of the island of Puerto Rico. The diocese is led by a Bishop Eusebio Ramos Morales whose seat is the mother church in the City of Caguas, Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús (Cathedral of the Sweet Name of Jesus). The cathedral was built as a parish church in the 19th century.
The See of Caguas was canonically erected on November 4, 1964 and is a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico, of which it was previously a part.
Ordinaries
- † Rafael Grovas Felix (1965-1981)
- Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera, (1981-1998)
- Ruben González Medina, C.M.F. (2000–2016)
- Eusebio Ramos Morales, (2017-current)
Auxiliary Bishops
- † Antulio Parrilla-Bonilla, (1965-1968)
†= Deceased
See also
- Caguas, Puerto Rico
- Catholic Church by country
- Global organisation of the Catholic Church
- Ecclesiastical Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico
- List of Roman Catholic archdioceses (by country and continent)
- List of Roman Catholic dioceses (alphabetical) (including archdioceses)
- List of Roman Catholic dioceses (structured view) (including archdioceses)
- List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States
San Juan Bankruptcy and seizure of assets
On September 7, 2018,[1] following a similar ruling by the Puerto Rico Supreme Court, US Bankruptcy Judge Edward Godoy ruled that the bankruptcy filed by the Archdiocese of San Juan would also apply to every other Puerto Rican Catholic Diocese, including Caguas, and that assets would be seized from the Puerto Rican Catholic Church.[2]
References
External links
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Caguas (Official Site in Spanish)
- Diocese of Caguas, gCatholic.org
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