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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain

Latin Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Caribbean

Summary

Latin Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Caribbean

Field	Value
jurisdiction	Metropolitan Archdiocese
name	Port of Spain
latin	Archidioecesis Metropolitae Portus Hispaniae
local
image	Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Port of Spain).JPG
image_size	230px
caption	Cathedral of Port of Spain
country	Trinidad and Tobago
province	Port of Spain
coordinates
area_sqmi	5,128
population	1,310,000
population_as_of	2010
catholics	340,000
catholics_percent	26
parishes
churches
congregations
schools
members
denomination	Roman Catholic
rite	Roman Rite
established	April 30, 1850 ( years ago)
cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Port of Spain
patron	Immaculate Conception
priests
pope
metro_archbishop	Charles Jason Gordon
bishop_title	Archbishop
vicar_general	Fr. Martin Sirju
emeritus_bishops	Joseph Everard Harris, CSSp
website	Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Port of Spain () 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.

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

Bishops

Ordinaries

James Buckley (1819–1828)
Daniel McDonnell (bishop) (1828–1844)
Richard Patrick Smith (1844–1852)
Vincent Spaccapietra (1855–1859)
Ferdinand English (1860–1862)
Joachim-Hyacinthe Gonin, O.P. (1863–1889)
Patrick Vincent Flood, O.P. (1889–1907)
John Pius Dowling, O.P. (1909–1940)
Patrick Finbar Ryan, O.P. (1940–1966)
Gordon Anthony Pantin, C.S.Sp. (1967–2000)
Edward Joseph Gilbert, C.Ss.R. (2001–2011)
Joseph Everard Harris, C.S.Sp. (2011-2017)
Charles Jason Gordon (since 2017)

Coadjutor bishops

Richard Patrick Smith (1837-1844), as Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic
William Dominic O'Carroll, O.P. (1874-1880), did not succeed to see
Thomas Raymond Hyland, O.P. (1882-1884), did not succeed to see
George Vincent King, O.P. 1885-1886), did not succeed to see
Patrick Vincent Flood, O.P. (1887-1889)
Patrick Finbar Ryan, O.P. (1937–1940)
Joseph Everard Harris, C.S.Sp. (2011)

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

(2016-01-03). "Trinidad & Tobago Holy Doors".

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