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Juan Bautista de Zengotita y Bengoa, O. de M. (1795–1802 Died) Juan Alejo de Arizmendi de La Torre (1803–1814 Died) Mariano Rodríguez de Olmedo y Valle (1815–1825 Confirmed, Bishop of San Cristobal de la Habana) Pedro Gutiérrez de Cos y Saavedra Seminario (1826–1833 Died) Francisco Fleix y Soláns (1846–1846 Confirmed, Bishop of San ...
In 1888, the Jesuits took over the pastoral responsibilities of the parish, after a serious outbreak of yellow fever in Tampa took the lives of three diocesan priests. Using Tampa as their base, the Jesuits were given the responsibility of all of South Florida by Bishop Moore. In 1905, a new Church was constructed in Romanesque style and the ...
The Diocese of St. Petersburg comprises 3,177 square miles (8,230 km 2), encompassing Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus counties. The principal cities are Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater. As of 2023, the diocese had a total Catholic population of approximately 500,000, with 280,000 of them registered with the diocese. [2]
With the Spanish gone, the Tano Pueblos of San Lazaro and San Cristobal, formerly located in the Galisteo Basin, relocated at two sites opposite each other on the Santa Cruz River. [2] In 1695 General Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon reoccupied the valley and ordered the Indians of these villages to move. The land was granted to sixty ...
The Centro Asturiano de La Habana was founded on May 2, 1886, to provide medical assistance, social activities, education, and recreational opportunities. The cigar industry soon established many factories in Tampa that brought a wave of new immigrants from Spain, but especially from Cuba.
La Gaceta is a weekly newspaper in Tampa, Florida, founded in 1922.Published in English, Spanish, and Italian, it is the only trilingual newspaper in the United States.. The paper was founded by Victoriano Manteiga, a former lector in the cigar factories of West Tampa and Ybor City, to serve the needs of the immigrant population of Tampa.
The Franciscan Center, named to honor St. Francis of Assisi, is located on east side of the Hillsborough River, in the Riverside Heights residential area of Tampa, Florida. The center, on 8-acre (32,000 m 2), is designed to be a spiritual retreat center for people of all faiths. It is considered in the same nonprofit category as a church.
The diocese was erected on 10 September 1787 by Pope Pius VI, from the territory of the then–Diocese of Santiago de Cuba.When it was erected, the new diocese encompassed the secular provinces of Santa Clara, Matanzas, Havana, and Pinar del Río in Cuba and Florida and Louisiana in what is now the United States of America.