Diocese of Cartago, Costa Rica 🇨🇷

Continent: Central America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Cartago / Carthaginen(sis) in Costa Rica (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: San José

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint James Major (July 25)

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: July 31

Liturgical Calendar 📅

History

2005.05.24: Established as Diocese of Cartago / Carthaginen(sis) in Costa Rica (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José and Diocese of Limón and became suffragan of San José)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2017.03.04 – ...):

Bishop Mario Enrique Quirós Quirós (58)

Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica

Ordinaries

Bishops of Cartago (Roman Rite)

Bishop Mario Enrique Quirós Quirós (58)
(2017.03.04 – ...)

Bishop of Cartago (Costa Rica)
Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica

Christo confixus cruci sum

Born:	1967.01.19 (Paraíso, Costa Rica)
Ordained Priest:	1994.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	2017.05.13

Priest of Cartago (Costa Rica) (1994.12.08 – 2017.03.04)

Bishop of Cartago (Costa Rica) (2017.03.04 – ...)

Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica (2020.08.07 – ...)

Bishop José Francisco Ulloa Rojas (85)
(2005.05.24 – 2017.03.04)

Bishop emeritus of Cartago (Costa Rica)

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Born:	1940.10.01 (Cipreses de Oreamuno, Costa Rica)
Ordained Priest:	1964.12.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1995.02.22

Priest of San José (Costa Rica) (1964.12.19 – 1994.12.30)

Bishop of Limón (Costa Rica) (1994.12.30 – 2005.05.24)

President of Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica (2002 – 2008.09)

President of Episcopal Secretariat of Central America and Panama (2005.03 – 2011)

Bishop of Cartago (Costa Rica) (2005.05.24 – 2017.03.04)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de El Carmen, Cartago, Cartago
Minor Basilica: Basílica de la Inmaculada Concepción, Tejar, Cartago
Minor Basilica: Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles, Cartago, Cartago
National Shrine: Santuario Nacional Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Concepción del Rescate de Ujarrás, Paraíso, Cartago
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Puntarenas (↙), San José (←), Limón (→), San Isidro de El General (↓)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 3,105 km²

Population: 286,000 Catholics (65.0% of 440,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 39 parishes, 3 missions

Personnel: 101 priests (85 diocesan, 16 religious), 111 religious (28 brothers, 83 sisters), 25 seminarians