Diocese of Ponce
Poncen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ponce, Puerto Rico
The Diocese of Ponce is a Latin Church diocese covering the southern part of Puerto Rico, erected in 1924 as a suffragan of San Juan de Puerto Rico. Its current ordinary is Bishop Rubén Antonio González Medina, C.M.F.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 November 1924
- Latin
- Poncen(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora de la Guadalupe
- Annuario code
- 001002620
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 474,959
- Population
- 593,548
- Catholic share
- 80.0%
- Priests
- 74
- Catholics per priest
- 6,418
- Extent
- 2,045 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 232
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
- Geraldo Ramírez Torres
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
Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe stands in Ponce, 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 San Juan de Puerto Rico
A suffragan of Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AreciboArecibo
- Diocese of CaguasCaguas
- Diocese of Fajardo–HumacaoFajardo–Humacao
- Diocese of MayagüezMayagüez
- Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto RicoSan Juan de Puerto Rico
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Southern Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, is served by the Diocese of Ponce (Latin: Dioecesis Poncensis), an ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church. A prelate bishop pastors the mother church in the City of Ponce, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The diocese's jurisdiction takes in the municipalities of Adjuntas, Jayuya, Guánica, Guayanilla, Yauco, Peñuelas, Ponce, Juana Díaz, Villalba, Coamo, Santa Isabel, Salinas, Guayama, Arroyo, and Patillas.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].