The Diocese of San Isidro de El General ( la, Dioecesis Sancti Isidori is a

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ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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in Costa Rica. It is a suffragan diocese in the

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of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. It was erected as a diocese on 19 August 1954.

Bishops

Ordinaries

* Delfín Quesada Castro (1954−1974) * Ignacio Nazareno Trejos Picado (1974−2003) * Guillermo Loría Garita (2003−2013) * Gabriel Enrique Montero Umaña,

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(2013–2021) * Juan Miguel Castro Rojas (2021–present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

* Hugo Barrantes Ureña, appointed Bishop of Puntarenas in 1998

Territorial losses

References

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San Isidro de El General San Isidro de El General () is the first district of the canton of Pérez Zeledón, in the southern part of the province of San José in Costa Rica, as well as the name of said district's main city. San Isidro de El General is the most populou ...

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