The Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica is a

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: the Diocese of Alajuela, Cartago, Ciudad Quesada, Limón, Puntarenas, San Isidro de El General, and

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. Erected on 28 February 1850, the Diocese of San José de Costa Rica was elevated to an archdiocese on 16 February 1921. It is the sole archdiocese in Costa Rica.

Bishops

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) *

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(2002–2013) *

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(2013– )

Auxiliary bishops

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(1968-1974), appointed Bishop of San Isidro de El General *

Antonio Troyo Calderón Antonio Troyo Calderón (October 18, 1923 – December 1, 2015) was a Costa Rican Prelate of the Catholic Church. Troyo Calderón was born in Cartago and was ordained a priest on November 30, 1947. Calderón was appointed auxiliary bishop to th ...

(1979-2002) *

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(2017-

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

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, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Comayagua, Honduras in 1915 * Claudio María Volio y Jiménez, appointed Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras in 1916 * Vicente Juan Solís Fernández, appointed Bishop of Alajuela in 1940 * Alfonso Coto Monge, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Limón in 1980 * José Francisco Ulloa Rojas, appointed Bishop of Limón in 1994 * Oscar Gerardo Fernández Guillén, appointed Bishop of Puntarenas in 2003 * José Manuel Garita Herrera, appointed Bishop of Ciudad Quesada in 2014 * Javier Gerardo Román Arias, appointed Bishop of Limón in 2015 * Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora, appointed Bishop of Tilarán-Liberia in 2016 * Mario Enrique Quirós Quirós (priest here, 1994-2005), appointed Bishop of Cartago in 2017

Territorial losses

References

External links

Arquidiocesis de San José Costa Rica
''official site (in Spanish)'' * * San Jose de Costa Rica San Jose de Costa Rica San Jose de Costa Rica 1850 establishments in Costa Rica {{RC-diocese-stub