Metropolitan Hugo Barrantes Ureña Denomination Roman Catholic Area 3,105 km² Bishop José Francisco Ulloa | Parishes 36 Rite Latin Rite Country Costa Rica Ecclesiastical province Hugo Barrantes Ureña | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2005)
378,523
272.388 (72%) Established 24 May 2005 (11 years ago) | ||
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cartago is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province (covering all Costa Rica) of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica .
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Its cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de El Carmen, dedicated to Our Lady of Carmel, in Cartago. It also has two Minor Basilicas :
History
Erected on 24 May 2005 as Diocese of Cartago (in Costa Rica) / Carthaginen(sis) in Costa Rica (Latin), on territories split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José (whose suffragan it became) and the Diocese of Limón.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 442,000 Catholics (90.0% of 491,000 total) on 1,252 km² in 39 parishes and 4 missions with 108 priests (75 diocesan, 33 religious), 154 lay religious (80 brothers, 74 sisters) and 36 seminarians.
Episcopal Ordinaries
(all Latin Rite)