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Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro

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Parishes
  
5

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Panama

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
16,671 km²

Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro

Metropolitan
  
Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2004)124,00062,000 (50%)

Established
  
17 October 1962 (54 years ago)

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Panamá

The Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Buccae Taurinae) is a Latin ecclesiastical circumscription suffragan to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Panamá.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen (dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel), in Bocas del Toro, on Isla Colón, in Panama's western, Atlantic Bocas del Toro province.

History

It was established on 17 October 1962 as Territorial Prelature on territory split off from the Roman Catholic Diocese of David.

Prelate Ordinaries

(all Roman Rite, so far members of a Latin congregation)

Bishop-prelates of Boca del Toro
  • Martin Legarra Tellechea, Order of Augustinian Recollects (O.A.R.) (1963.11.06 – 1969.04.03), Titular Bishop of Luperciana (1965.03.18 – 1969.04.03); later Bishop of Santiago de Veraguas (Panama) (1969.04.03 – 1975.02.15)
  • José Agustín Ganuza García, O.A.R. (1970.03.12 – 2008.05.01), Titular Bishop of Pauzera (1972.02.04 – 1977.11.18)
  • Aníbal Saldaña Santamaría, O.A.R. (2008.05.01 – ...)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro Wikipedia
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