Roman Catholic Diocese of Caguas

Diocese of Caguas Dioecesis Caguana Diócesis de Caguas

Location
Country	United States
Territory	East and Southeast portions of the island of Puerto Rico
Ecclesiastical province	San Juan de Puerto Rico
Statistics
Area	737 sq mi (1,910 km²)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 721,700 518,000 (71.8%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	4 November 1964 (52 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral Dulce Nombre de Jesus
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Sede vacante
Metropolitan Archbishop	Roberto González Nieves, O.F.M. Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
Emeritus Bishops	Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera
Map

Cathedral Dulce Nombre de Jesus

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caguas (Latin: Dioecesis Caguana) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean and consists of the east and southeast part of the island of Puerto Rico. The diocese is led by a Bishop Ruben González Medina, C.M.F. whose seat is the mother church in the City of Caguas, Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús (Cathedral of the Sweet Name of Jesus). The cathedral was built as a parish church in the 19th century, and—since Puerto Rico became an American territory in 1917—has been staffed by priests of the Eastern American Province of the Redemptorist order, based in Baltimore, Md..

The See of Caguas was canonically erected on November 4, 1964 and is a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico, of which it was previously a part.

Ordinaries

†= Deceased

Charities

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