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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City–Belmopan (Latin: Dioecesis Belizepolitanus-Belmopanus) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in continental Central America. The diocese comprises the entirety of Belize , the former British dependency British Honduras .
It is canonically the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan. It shares the role with Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral in Belmopan, though the Bishop's offices remain at Holy Redeemer. Pope John Paul II made the first Papal visit to Belize and visited the cathedral in 1983. [1]
Holy Redeemer parish complex. In 1837 the Catholic mission office in Rome made Jamaica a vicariate responsible for the whole Caribbean area. [13] With few resources spread over this vast region, little attention was given to the territory of Belize until Catholics of Spanish ancestry were driven from Yucatan to northern Belize during their strife with the Maya (1847-1901).
The country comes under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan. The nunciature to Belize is combined with the nunciature to El Salvador . The current apostolic nuncio to Belize is Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto .
The Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean comprises thirteen ecclesiastical provinces — each headed by a metropolitan archbishop — plus one diocese that is part of a non-Caribbean province. Each province has an archdiocese (headed by an archbishop ) and one or more suffragan dioceses (headed by a bishop ).
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan, formerly the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Diocese of Belize .
Osmond Peter Martin was born on December 4, 1930, in Dangriga, Belize.He studied for the Catholic priesthood at Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, and was ordained a priest on April 3, 1959, in his home parish of Sacred Heart in Dangriga.
He was Vicar in Belmopan for 13 years from 1991 to 2004, pastor in Orange Walk Town, and then pastor of two suburban churches in Belize City: St. Ignatius (2005–2008) and St. John Vianney (2008–2013).