Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan

Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan

Infobox Diocese| jurisdiction=Diocese
name= Belize City-Belmopan
latin=Dioecesis Belizepolitanus-Belmopanus
country= Belize
rite=Roman Rite
cathedral = Holy Redeemer Cathedral (Belize City)
cocathedral = Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral (Belmopan)
area= 2,591
population= 287,730
population_as_of=2004
catholics= 218,938
catholics_percent=76.1
bishop= Dorick McGowan Wright
coadjutor =
auxiliary_bishops =

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. [" [http://www.catholiccaribbean.org/articles.asp?id=162 Diocese of Belize City & Belmopan] "; Antilles Episcopal Conference; December 12, 2002; url accessed June 28, 2006]

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. [ [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dbeli.html "Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan"] , Catholic-Hierarchy.org, url accessed June 28, 2006]

The cathedral of the diocese, also known as its motherchurch, is Holy Redeemer Cathedral in Belize City. [ [http://www.holyredeemerbelize.org/history.html "History"] ; Holy Redeemer Cathedral; url accessed June 28, 2006] Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral in Belmopan is the co-cathedral of the diocese. [ [http://kozmicmedia.com/belize/journal/belizej7.html] ; "The Belize Journal"; December 3, 1996; url accessed June 28, 2006]

Ordinaries

*Salvatore di Pietro S.J. (1888 - 1898)
*Frederick Charles Hopkins S.J. (1899 - 1923)
*Joseph Aloysius Murphy S.J. (1923 - 1938)
*William A. Rice S.J. (1938 - 1946)
*David Francis Hickey S.J. (1948 - 1957)
*Robert Louis Hodapp S.J. (1958 - 1983)
*Osmond Peter Martin (1983 - 2006)
*Dorick McGowan Wright (2006 - )

References

See also: List of Roman Catholic dioceses in North America


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