Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Port_of_Spain

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain

Latin Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Caribbean

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Port of Spain (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Portus Hispaniae) is a metropolitan diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The archdiocese encompasses the entirety of the former Spanish dependency of Trinidad, including the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The archdiocese is the Metropolitan responsible for the suffragan Dioceses of Bridgetown, Georgetown, Paramaribo and Willemstad, and is a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.

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The diocese of Port of Spain was originally erected as a vicariate apostolic in 1818 and elevated to an archdiocese in April 1830.

Communications

The archdiocese has its own special-purpose company, Catholic Media Services Limited (CAMSEL), responsible for coordinating communications. The diocesan weekly newspaper, Catholic News, has been published in Trinidad since 1892 and since 2006 has been published by CAMSEL.

There is also a local TV station which operates under the aegis of the archdiocese but is independently owned and operated by the Living Water Community, a public association of Christian Faithful founded in Trinidad.

The vicar for communications is Fr. Robert Christo.

Pastoral regions

The archdiocese is divided into six regions known as vicariates and each headed by a regional episcopal vicar.

  • Central Vicariate
  • Eastern Vicariate
  • Northern Vicariate
  • Southern Vicariate
  • Suburban Vicariate
  • Tobago Vicariate

See also

Bishops

Ordinaries

Coadjutor bishops

Auxiliary bishops

  • William Michael Fitzgerald, O.P. (1958-1968)
  • John Mendes (1988-2002)
  • Robert Anthony Llanos (2013-2018), appointed Bishop of Saint John's-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

  • Sydney Anicetus Charles, appointed Bishop of Saint George's in Grenada in 1974
  • Clyde Martin Harvey, appointed Bishop of Saint George's in Grenada in 2018
  • Malcolm Patrick Galt, CSSp., appointed Bishop of Bridgetown in Barbados in 1995
  • Francis Dean Alleyne, O.S.B., appointed Bishop of Georgetown in Guyana in 2003

References

  • The Archdiocese of Port of Spain official site
  • "Archdiocese of Port of Spain". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-27.
  • Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Archdiocese of Port of Spain" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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