Diocese of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey
A Domina Nostra vulgo de la Altagracia in Higüey, seu Higueyen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, Dominican Republic
Latin rite diocese in the eastern Dominican Republic, erected on 1 April 1959 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo. Its seat is the Basilica Catedral Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia in Higuey, a national shrine declared a minor basilica in 1970. Bishop Jesus Castro Marte has led the diocese since 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 April 1959
- Latin
- A Domina Nostra vulgo de la Altagracia in Higüey, seu Higueyen(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia
- Annuario code
- 001002423
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 457,100
- Population
- 535,400
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 85.4%
- Priests
- 40
- Catholics per priest
- 11,428
- Extent
- 5,437 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 84
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
- Jesus Castro Marte
- Born
- 18 March 1966
- Birthplace
- Guerra
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
Basilica Catedral Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia, Higuey stands in Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, 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 Santo Domingo
A suffragan of Santo Domingo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Santo DomingoSanto Domingo
- Diocese of BaníBaní
- Diocese of BarahonaBarahona
- Diocese of San Juan de la MaguanaSan Juan de la Maguana
- Diocese of San Pedro de MacorísSan Pedro de Macorís
- Diocese of Stella MarisStella Maris
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Obispado, Ave. Dr. Vetilio Alfau Durán 12, Higüey, República Dominicana
- Telephone
- [809]554-2431; 554-4120; fax 554-2827
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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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.