Suffragan diocese La Vega, Dominican Republic
Diocese of La Vega
Vegen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese in the Cibao region of the Dominican Republic, erected in 1953 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros. Its seat is the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion in La Vega, inaugurated in 1992. The see became vacant in November 2025 when Bishop Carlos Tomas Morel Diplan was named Coadjutor Archbishop of Santo Domingo; Bishop Jose Amable Duran Tineo serves as apostolic administrator.
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- Established
- 1953
- Catholics
- 610,881
- Priests
- 121
- Territory
- 4,919 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop of La Vega
- Andrés Napoleón Romero Cárdenas
- Born
- 24 July 1967
- Birthplace
- Ramonal Arriba
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The cathedral
Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, La Vega stands in La Vega, 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.
History
Erected on 25 September 1953, the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Vega (Latin: Dioecesis Vegensis) stands as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros.