Metropolitan see Castries, Saint Lucia
Archdiocese of Castries
Castrien(sis)
Latin Church
Latin metropolitan archdiocese covering Saint Lucia, erected as the Diocese of Castries in 1956 from the Archdiocese of Port of Spain and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in November 1974. Its cathedral is the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries and its suffragans are Roseau, Saint George's in Grenada, St. John's-Basseterre and Kingstown.
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- Established
- 1956
- Catholics
- 105,256
- Priests
- 25
- Territory
- 616 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
- Archbishop
- Gabriel Malzaire
- Born
- 4 October 1957
- Birthplace
- Mon Repos
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The cathedral
Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Castries stands in Castries, 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
Covering the whole of the former British dependency of Saint Lucia, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Castries (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Castriensis) is a Latin Church archdiocese in the Caribbean. As a metropolitan see it heads the Castries Province, whose suffragans are the Dioceses of Roseau, Saint George's in Grenada, St. John's-Basseterre and Kingstown. The archdiocese belongs to the Antilles Episcopal Conference.