Diocese of Caguas Dioecesis Caguana Diócesis de Caguas | |
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Location | |
Country | Puerto Rico |
Territory | Southeast portions of Puerto Rico |
Ecclesiastical province | San Juan de Puerto Rico |
Statistics | |
Area | 492 sq mi (1,270 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2013) 643,000 503,000 (78.2%) |
Parishes | 34 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 4 November 1964 (58 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús |
Patron saint | María, Madre de la Iglesia (Mary, Mother of the Church) |
Secular priests | 43 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Eusebio Ramos Morales |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Roberto González Nieves, O.F.M. Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico |
Bishops emeritus | Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera |
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The Diocese of Caguas (Latin : Dioecesis Caguana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in southeastern Puerto Rico in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico
The mother church of the Diocese of Caguas is the Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús (Cathedral of the Sweet Name of Jesus) in Caguas. As of 2023, the current bishop of Cagus is Eusebio Ramos Morales. The diocese was erected on November 4, 1964
The Diocese of Caguas includes the following municipalities:
Naranjito, Barranquitas, Comerío, Aguas Buenas, Caguas, Gurabo, Aibonito, Cidra, Cayey, San Lorenzo, Juncos, Las Piedras, Yabucoa, and Maunabo. [1]
Antulio Parrilla Bonilla (1965-1968); resigned
On 7 September 2018, Judge Edward Godoy ruled that the bankruptcy filed by the Archdiocese of San Juan would also apply to every Catholic diocese in Puerto Rico, including Caguas, and that all would now have their assets protected under Chapter 11. [2] [3]
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