Roman Catholic Diocese of Limón

The Diocese of Limón 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. It was erected 16 February 1921 as a apostolic vicariate, elevated to a diocese on 30 December 1994.

Diocese of Limón Dioecesis Limonensis Diócesis de Limón
Cathedral of Limón
Location
Country	Costa Rica
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San José de Costa Rica
Statistics
Area	10,835 km2 (4,183 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 446,912 348,591 (78%)
Parishes	21
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	16 February 1921 (103 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Javier Gerardo Román Arias
Map

Ordinaries

• Agustín Blessing Presinger, C.M. (1921–1934)
• Carlos Alberto Wollgarten, C.M. (1935–1937)
• Juan Paulo Odendahl Metz, C.M. (1938–1957)
• Alfonso Hoefer Hombach, C.M. (1958–1979)
• Alfonso Coto Monge (1980–1994)
• José Francisco Ulloa Rojas (1994–2005), appointed Bishop of Cartago
• José Rafael Quirós Quirós (2005–2013), appointed Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
• Javier Gerardo Román Arias (2015–present)

Territorial losses

Year	Along with	To form
2005	Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica	Diocese of Cartago

See also

• Catholic Church in Costa Rica

External links

• Diocesis de Limón Archived 2006-06-26 at the Wayback Machine official site (in Spanish)
• "Diocese of Limón". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-15. ^{[self-published]}