Suffragan territorial prelature Bocas del Toro, Panama
Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro
Buccae Taurinae
Latin Church
Latin rite territorial prelature covering Panama's western Atlantic province of Bocas del Toro, erected 17 October 1962 from the Diocese of David. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Panama; its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Bocas Town on Isla Colon.
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- Established
- 1962
- Catholics
- 62,000
- Priests
- 14
- Territory
- 16,671 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
- Anibal Saldana Santamaria, O.A.R.
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The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel stands in Bocas del Toro, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
Suffragan to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Panamá, the Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Buccae Taurinae) is a Latin ecclesiastical circumscription. Its cathedral, Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen, dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, stands in Bocas del Toro on Isla Colón, in the western, Atlantic Bocas del Toro province of Panama.