Diocese of San Isidro de El General
Sancti Isidori
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Isidro de El General, Costa Rica
The Diocese of San Isidro de El General is a Latin Church diocese in southern Costa Rica, erected on 19 August 1954. It is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 August 1954
- Latin
- Sancti Isidori
- Patron
- Saint Isidore the Laborer (San Isidro Labrador)
- Annuario code
- 001002904
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 359,000
- Population
- 369,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 97.3%
- Priests
- 59
- Catholics per priest
- 6,085
- Extent
- 10,346 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 35
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Juan Miguel Castro Rojas
- Born
- 20 August 1966
- Birthplace
- Concepción de Naranjo
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of St. Isidore stands in San Isidro de El General, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of San José de Costa Rica
A suffragan of Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.