Archdiocese of Port of Spain
Portus Hispaniae
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
The Archdiocese of Port of Spain is the metropolitan see of Trinidad and Tobago, with suffragans across the Caribbean. Its seat is the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, and Charles Jason Gordon has been archbishop since 2017.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 April 1850
- Latin
- Portus Hispaniae
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002645
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 340,000
- Population
- 1,310,000
- Catholic share
- 26.0%
- Priests
- 89
- Catholics per priest
- 3,820
- Extent
- 13,281 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 26
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
- Archbishop
- Charles Jason Gordon
- Born
- 17 March 1959
- Birthplace
- Port of Spain
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 Basilica of the Immaculate Conception stands in Port of Spain, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Pro-Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, San Fernando.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Port of Spain
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BridgetownBridgetown
- Diocese of GeorgetownGeorgetown
- Diocese of ParamariboParamaribo
- Diocese of WillemstadWillemstad
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Covering the whole of the former Spanish dependency of Trinidad, including the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Port of Spain (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Portus Hispaniae) is a metropolitan diocese of the Latin Church in the Caribbean. First erected as a vicariate apostolic in 1818 and raised to an archdiocese in April 1830, it now serves as Metropolitan for the suffragan Dioceses of Bridgetown, Georgetown, Paramaribo and Willemstad, and belongs to the Antilles Episcopal Conference.
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].