Diocese of Puerto Plata
Portus Argentarii
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Latin rite diocese on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, created by Pope John Paul II in 1996 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros. Its seat is the Catedral San Felipe Apostol in Puerto Plata. Bishop Julio Cesar Corniel Amaro has led the diocese since 31 May 2005.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 December 1996
- Latin
- Portus Argentarii
- Annuario code
- 001002680
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 338,560
- Population
- 346,520
- Catholic share
- 97.7%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 7,695
- Extent
- 2,700 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 125
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
- Julio Cesar Corniel Amaro
- Born
- 28 September 1958
- Birthplace
- Rio San Juan
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
Catedral San Felipe Apostol, Puerto Plata stands in Puerto Plata, 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 Santiago de los Caballeros
A suffragan of Santiago de los Caballeros.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Santiago de los CaballerosSantiago de los Caballeros
- Diocese of La VegaLa Vega
- Diocese of Mao-Monte CristiMao-Monte Cristi
- Diocese of San Francisco de MacorísSan Francisco de Macorís
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle José del Carmen Ariza 36, Puerto Plata, 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].