Diocese of Caguas
Caguan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Caguas, Puerto Rico
The Diocese of Caguas is a Latin Catholic diocese covering southeastern Puerto Rico, with its see in Caguas. Erected in 1964, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 4 November 1964
- Latin
- Caguan(us)
- Patron
- Mary, Mother of the Church
- Annuario code
- 001001007
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 503,000
- Population
- 643,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 78.2%
- Priests
- 43
- Catholics per priest
- 11,698
- Extent
- 1,274 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 395
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
- Eusebio Ramos Morales
- Born
- 15 December 1952
- Birthplace
- Maunabo
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
Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús stands in Caguas, 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 Juan de Puerto Rico
A suffragan of Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AreciboArecibo
- Diocese of Fajardo–HumacaoFajardo–Humacao
- Diocese of MayagüezMayagüez
- Diocese of PoncePonce
- Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto RicoSan Juan de Puerto Rico
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Erected on November 4, 1964, the Diocese of Caguas (Latin: Dioecesis Caguana) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in southeastern Puerto Rico in the United States, belonging as a suffragan to the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico. Its mother church is the Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús (Cathedral of the Sweet Name of Jesus) in Caguas. As of 2023 the bishop is Eusebio Ramos Morales.
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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.