Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica

Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica Archidioecesis Sancti Iosephi in Costarica
Catedral Metropolitana San José
Location
Country	Costa Rica
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San José de Costa Rica
Statistics
Area	2,208 km2 (853 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 1,566,000 1,168,000 (74.6%)
Parishes	107
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	28 February 1850 (168 years ago)
Cathedral	Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Joseph
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	José Rafael Quirós
Emeritus Bishops	Hugo Barrantes Ureña
Map
Website
www.arquisanjose.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica (erected 28 February 1850 as the Diocese of San José de Costa Rica) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese and its suffragan dioceses are Alajuela, Cartago, Ciudad Quesada, Limón, Puntarenas, San Isidro de El General and Tilarán. The see was elevated to an archdiocese on 16 February 1921.

Ordinaries

• Anselmo Llorente y La Fuente (1851–1871)
• Bernardo Augusto Thiel Hoffman (1880–1901)
• Juan Gaspar Stork, C.M. (1904–1920)
• Rafael Otón Castro Jiménez (1921–1939)
• Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez (1940–1952)
• Rubén Odio Herrera (1952–1959)
• Carlos Humberto Rodríguez Quirós (1960–1979)
• Román Arrieta Villalobos (1979–2002)
• Hugo Barrantes Ureña (2002–2013)
• José Rafael Quirós (2013– )

Auxiliary Bishops

• Antonio Troyo Calderón

Territorial losses

See also

• Catholic Church in Costa Rica
• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Costa Rica

References

External links

• Arquidiocesis de San José Costa Rica official site (in Spanish)
• "Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-13. ^{[self-published]}
•  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "San José de Costa Rica". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Coordinates: 9°55′58″N 84°04′44″W / 9.9327°N 84.0788°W / 9.9327; -84.0788