The Roman Catholic Diocese of Puerto Plata ( la, Dioecesis Portus Argentarii) (erected 16 December 1996) is a
suffragan diocese of the
Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros. The diocese is located in the province of
Puerto Plata, in the northern section of the
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
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The cathedral of the diocese is the
Cathedral of St. Philip the Apostle, which is located in the city of
San Felipe de Puerto Plata
Puerto Plata, officially known as San Felipe de Puerto Plata, is the third-largest city in the Dominican Republic, and capital of the province of Puerto Plata. The city is a trading port. Puerto Plata has resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Do ...
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Bishops
Ordinaries (Bishops of the Diocese)
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Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez
Gregorio is a masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:
Given name
* Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925–2016), Uruguayan army general and de facto President of Uruguay from 1981 until 1985
* Gregorio Álvarez (historian) (1889–1986), ...
(1996 - 2004), appointed Bishop of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey
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Julio César Corniel Amaro Julio is the Spanish equivalent of the month July and may refer to:
*Julio (given name)
*Julio (surname)
*Júlio de Castilhos, a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
* ''Julio'' (album), a 1983 compilation albu ...
(2005 - )
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
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Santiago Rodríguez Rodríguez
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
, appointed Bishop of San Pedro de Macorís in 2017
External links and references
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