Diocese of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey
A Domina Nostra vulgo de la Altagracia in Higüey, seu Higueyen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, Dominican Republic
Latin rite diocese in the eastern Dominican Republic, erected on 1 April 1959 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo. Its seat is the Basilica Catedral Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia in Higuey, a national shrine declared a minor basilica in 1970. Bishop Jesus Castro Marte has led the diocese since 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 April 1959
- Latin
- A Domina Nostra vulgo de la Altagracia in Higüey, seu Higueyen(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia
- Annuario code
- 001002423
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 457,100
- Population
- 535,400
- Catholic share
- 85.4%
- Priests
- 40
- Catholics per priest
- 11,428
- Extent
- 5,437 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 84
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
- Jesus Castro Marte
- Born
- 18 March 1966
- Birthplace
- Guerra
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
Basilica Catedral Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia, Higuey stands in Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, 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 Santo Domingo
A suffragan of Santo Domingo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Santo DomingoSanto Domingo
- Diocese of BaníBaní
- Diocese of BarahonaBarahona
- Diocese of San Juan de la MaguanaSan Juan de la Maguana
- Diocese of San Pedro de MacorísSan Pedro de Macorís
- Diocese of Stella MarisStella Maris
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Ave. Dr. Vetilio Alfau Durán 12, Higüey, República Dominicana
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].