Roman Catholic Diocese of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia in Higüey

Latin Catholic jurisdiction in the Dominican Republic

Diocese of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey Dioecesis Higueyensis

Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia
Location
Country	Dominican Republic
Ecclesiastical province	Santo Domingo
Metropolitan	Higüey
Statistics
Area	5,437 km² (2,099 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 535,400 457,100 (85.4%)
Parishes	22
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1 April 1959 (65 years ago)
Cathedral	Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Jesús Castro Marte
Bishops emeritus	Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez
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The Diocese of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey (Latin: Dioecesis Higueyensis) (erected 1 April 1959) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santo Domingo.

History

1 April 1959: created from territory of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo^[1]
1 February 1997: lost territory as did the Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros to create the Diocese of San Pedro de Macorís^[2]

Bishops

Ordinaries

Juan Félix Pepén y Soliman † (1959 - 1975), became emeritus
Hugo Eduardo Polanco Brito † (1975 - 1995), Archbishop (personal title), became emeritus
Ramón Benito de La Rosa y Carpio (1995 - 2003), appointed Archbishop of Santiago de los Caballeros
Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez (2004 - 2020), became emeritus
Jesús Castro Marte (2020 - )

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

Pablo Cedano Cedano †, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo in 1996

References

^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LI. 1959. pp. 689–91. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIX. 1997. pp. 242–3. Retrieved 30 May 2020.