Denomination Roman Catholic Area 1,274 km² | Rite Roman Rite Country United States of America | |
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Territory East and Southeast portions of the island of Puerto Rico Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2013)
643,000
503,000 (78.2%) Parishes 34 Number of parishes in the diocese Established 4 November 1964 (52 years ago) Address caguad, Caguas, Puerto Rico Cathedral Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico Emeritus bishop Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera | ||
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
†= Deceased
References
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