Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan

Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan
Dioecesis Belizepolitanus-Belmopanus
Location
Country Belize
Ecclesiastical province Province of Kingston in Jamaica
Metropolitan Charles Henry Dufour
Statistics
Area 2,591 km2 (1,000 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2004)
287,730
218,938 (76.1%)
Information
Rite Roman Rite
Cathedral Holy Redeemer Cathedral (Belize City)
Co-cathedral Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral (Belmopan)
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Dorick M. Wright
Auxiliary Bishops Christopher Glancy, C.S.V.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan (Latin: Dioecesis Belizepolitanus-Belmopanus) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in North America. The diocese comprises the entirety of the former British dependency of Belize. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kingston, and a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.[1]

The diocese was erected as the Prefecture Apostolic of British Honduras in 1888, and elevated to an Apostolic Vicariate in 1893. Its name was changed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Belize in 1925, and was elevated to a diocese in 1956. In 1983 the name of the diocese was changed to its current form.[2]

The cathedral of the diocese, also known as its motherchurch, is Holy Redeemer Cathedral in Belize City.[3] Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral in Belmopan is the co-cathedral of the diocese.[4]

Bishops

Ordinaries

  1. Salvatore di Pietro, S.J. (1888–1898)
  2. Frederick C. Hopkins, S.J. (1899–1923)
  3. Joseph Anthony Murphy, S.J. (1923–1938)
  4. William A. Rice, S.J. (1938–1946)
  5. David Francis Hickey, S.J. (1948–1957)
  6. Robert Louis Hodapp, S.J. (1958–1983)
  7. Osmond P. Martin (1983–2006)
  8. Dorick M. Wright (2006 - )

Auxiliary bishop

See also

References

  1. ↑ Diocese of Belize City & Belmopan; Antilles Episcopal Conference; December 12, 2002; url accessed June 28, 2006
  2. ↑ Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, url accessed June 28, 2006
  3. ↑ History; Holy Redeemer Cathedral; url accessed June 28, 2006
  4. ↑ ; The Belize Journal; December 3, 1996; url accessed June 28, 2006

Coordinates: 17°29′51.7″N 88°11′20.2″W / 17.497694°N 88.188944°W / 17.497694; -88.188944

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