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Roman Catholic Diocese of Paramaribo

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Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
Suriname

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Joseph Everard Harris

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
163,265 km²

Bishop
  
Karel Choennie

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2013) 557,000 135,000 (24,2%)

Established
  
22 November 1817 (199 years ago)

Emeritus Bishops
  
Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem Bishop Emeritus (1971-2003) Wilhelmus Adrianus Josephus Maria de Bekker

Cathedral
  
Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral, Paramaribo

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Paramaribo (Latin: Dioecesis Paramariboënsis; Dutch: Bisdom Paramaribo) (erected 22 November 1817, as the Prefecture Apostolic of Dutch Guyana-Suriname) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain. It was elevated to an apostolic vicariate on 12 September 1842 and to the Diocese of Paramaribo on 7 May 1958.

Ordinaries

  • Martinus van der Weijden (1826 - 1826)
  • Jacobus Grooff (1842 - 1852)
  • Jacobus Gerardus Schepers (1843 - 1863)
  • Johannes Baptist Swinkels, C.SS.R. (1865 - 1875)
  • Johannes Henricus Schaap, C.SS.R. (1876 - 1889)
  • Wilhelmus Antonius Ferdinand Wulfingh, C.SS.R. (1889 - 1906)
  • Jacobus Cornelis Meeuwissen, C.SS.R. (1907 - 1911)
  • Theodorus Antonius Leonardus Maria van Roosmalen, C.SS.R. (1911 - 1947)
  • Stephanus Joseph Maria Magdalena Kuijpers, C.SS.R. (1946 - 1971)
  • Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem, C.SS.R. (1971 - 2003) - Bishop Emeritus
  • Wilhelmus Adrianus Josephus Maria de Bekker (2005 - 2014) - Bishop Emeritus
  • Karel Choennie 2016 -

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Paramaribo Wikipedia
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