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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica

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Country
  
Costa Rica

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
2,208 km²

Metropolitan archbishop
  
José Rafael Quirós Quirós

Parishes
  
107

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Emeritus bishop
  
Hugo Barrantes Ureña

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Ecclesiastical province
  
Province of San José de Costa Rica

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 1,566,000 1,168,000 (74.6%)

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica (erected 28 February 1850 as the Diocese of San José de Costa Rica) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese and its suffragan dioceses are Alajuela, Cartago, Ciudad Quesada, Limón, Puntarenas, San Isidro de El General and Tilarán. The see was elevated to an archdiocese on 16 February 1921.

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Ordinaries

  • Anselmo Llorente y La Fuente (1851–1871)
  • Bernardo Augusto Thiel Hoffman (1880–1901)
  • Juan Gaspar Stork, C.M. (1904–1920)
  • Rafael Otón Castro Jiménez (1921–1939)
  • Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez (1940–1952)
  • Rubén Odio Herrera (1952–1959)
  • Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós (1960–1979)
  • Román Arrieta Villalobos (1979–2002)
  • Hugo Barrantes Ureña (2002–2013)
  • José Rafael Quirós (2013-)

    • Auxiliary Bishops

  • Antonio Troyo Calderón

    • References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica Wikipedia
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