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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain

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Ecclesiastical province
  
Port of Spain

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Trinidad and Tobago

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
13,282 km²

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 1,310,000 340,000 (26%)

Established
  
April 30, 1850 (166 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Port of Spain

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain (Latin: Archidioecesis Portus Hispaniae) is a metropolitan diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The Archdiocese encompasses the entirety of the former Spanish dependency of Trinidad, including the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The Archdiocese is the Metropolitan responsible for the suffragan Dioceses of Bridgetown, Georgetown, Paramaribo and Willemstad, and is a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.

The diocese of Port of Spain was originally erected as a Vicariate Apostolic in 1818 and elevated to an Archdiocese in April 1830.

Ordinaries

  • James Buckley (1819–1828)
  • Daniel McDonnell (1828–1844)
  • Richard Patrick Smith (1844–1852)
  • Vincent Spaccapietra (1855–1859)
  • Ferdinand English (1860–1862)
  • Joachim-Hyacinthe Gonin, O.P. (1863–1889)
  • Patrick Vincent Flood, O.P. (1889–1907)
  • John Pius Dowling, O.P. (1909–1940)
  • Patrick Finbar Ryan, O.P. (1940–1966)
  • Gordon Anthony Pantin, C.S.Sp. (1967–2000)
  • Edward Joseph Gilbert, C.Ss.R. (2001–2011)
  • Joseph Everard Harris, C.S.Sp (since 2011)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain Wikipedia
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