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The Metropolitan Cathedral of San José Spanish: Catedral Metropolitana is a cathedral in San José, Costa Rica, located on Calle Central and Avenues 2 and 4. The original cathedral was built in 1802 but was destroyed by an earthquake.
The Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica. A metropolitan see, there are seven suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province: the Diocese of Alajuela, Cartago, Ciudad Quesada, Limón, Puntarenas, San Isidro de El General, and Tilarán. Erected on ...
The Catholic Church in Costa Rica is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Catholicism is the state religion of the country, and there are approximately 2.3 million Catholics—47% of the total population. [1] [2] The country is divided into eight dioceses and one archdiocese:
The Roman Catholic Church in Costa Rica consists only of a Latin hierarchy, joint in the national Episcopal conference of Costa Rica, comprising only one ecclesiastical province headed by a Metropolitan archbishop, with seven suffragan dioceses each headed by a bishop. There are no eastern Catholic, pre-diocesan or other exempt jurisdictions.
Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in Costa Rica: [1] Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar in Alajuela; Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmel in Cartago; Cathedral of St. Charles Borromeo in Ciudad Quesada; Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Limón; Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Puntarenas
[2] and has a temple in San Jose that serves as a regional worship center for Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras. [ 34 ] Quakers escaping compulsory draft from the Korean War founded a colony in Monteverde in 1950, [ 22 ] the Amish founded a community in San Carlos in 1968 [ 35 ] and the first Lutheran Church was founded in 1965. [ 36 ]
The Apostolic Nunciature to Costa Rica the diplomatic mission of the Holy See to Costa Rica. It is located in San José. The current Apostolic Nuncio is Archbishop Mark Miles, who was named to the position by Pope Francis on 9 July 2024. The Apostolic Nunciature to the Republic of Costa Rica is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in ...
The Diocese of Alajuela (Latin: Dioecesis Alaiuelensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. The Diocese of Alajuela was erected on 16 February 1921.