Diocese of San Isidro de El General
Sancti Isidori
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Isidro de El General, Costa Rica
The Diocese of San Isidro de El General is a Latin Church diocese in southern Costa Rica, erected on 19 August 1954. It is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 August 1954
- Latin
- Sancti Isidori
- Patron
- Saint Isidore the Laborer (San Isidro Labrador)
- Annuario code
- 001002904
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 359,000
- Population
- 369,000
- Catholic share
- 97.3%
- Priests
- 59
- Catholics per priest
- 6,085
- Extent
- 10,346 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 35
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Juan Miguel Castro Rojas
- Born
- 20 August 1966
- Birthplace
- Concepción de Naranjo
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. Isidore stands in San Isidro de El General, 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 José de Costa Rica
A suffragan of Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica.
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.
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].