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Diocese of Ciudad Quesada

Civitatis Quesaden(sis)

The Diocese of Ciudad Quesada is a Latin rite diocese in northern Costa Rica, suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Jose de Costa Rica. It was erected on 25 July 1995 from the Diocese of Alajuela and the Diocese of Tilaran. Its seat is the Cathedral of St. Charles Borromeo in Ciudad Quesada.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
25 July 1995
Latin
Civitatis Quesaden(sis)
Annuario code
001001168

The see in figures

Catholics
237,230
Population
267,645
Catholic share
88.6%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
43
Catholics per priest
5,517
Extent
9,838 km²
Catholics per km²
24

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
Jose Manuel Garita Herrera
Born
26 March 1965
Birthplace
Heredia

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. Charles Borromeo stands in Ciudad Quesada, 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 Jose de Costa Rica

A suffragan of Archdiocese of San Jose de Costa Rica.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

What is kept by invitation

The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.

The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].