Diocese of Caguas

Diocese of Caguas Dioecesis Caguana Diócesis de Caguas

Location
Country	Puerto Rico
Territory	East and Southeast portions of the island 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 Number of parishes in the diocese
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	4 November 1964 (52 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús
Patron saint	María, Madre de la Iglesia (Mary, Mother of the Church)
Secular priests	43 Number of priests in the diocese
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Eusebio Ramos Morales
Metropolitan Archbishop	Roberto González Nieves, O.F.M. Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
Emeritus Bishops	Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caguas (Latin: Dioecesis Caguana) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean and consists of the east and southeast part of the island of Puerto Rico. The diocese is led by a Bishop Eusebio Ramos Morales whose seat is the mother church in the City of Caguas, Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús (Cathedral of the Sweet Name of Jesus). The cathedral was built as a parish church in the 19th century.

The See of Caguas was canonically erected on November 4, 1964 and is a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico, of which it was previously a part.

Auxiliary Bishops

†= Deceased