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The Diocese of Cartago in Costa Rica is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province covering all Costa Rica of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de El Carmen, dedicated to Our Lady of Carmel, in Cartago, Cartago province, central Costa Rica
The Roman Catholic Church in Costa Rica consists only of a Latin hierarchy, joint in the national Episcopal conference of Costa Rica, comprising only one ecclesiastical province headed by a Metropolitan archbishop, with seven suffragan dioceses each headed by a bishop .
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cartago may refer to: Roman Catholic Diocese of Cartago in Costa Rica. Roman Catholic Diocese of Cartago in Colombia. Category: Disambiguation pages.
The Diocese of Cartago in Costa Rica is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province covering all Costa Rica of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. The Diocese of Cartago is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica.
Type of Jurisdiction: Diocese. Erected: 24 May 2005. Metropolitan: Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Rite: Latin (or Roman) Country: Costa Rica. Square Kilometers: 3,105 (1,199 Square Miles) Official Web Site: https://www.diocesisdecartagocostarica.com. Mailing Address: San Blas de la Subestacion de Jasec, El Carmen, 7050 Cartago, Costa Rica.
The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and is the seat of the diocese of Cartago in Costa Rica (D ioecesis Carthaginensis in Costa Rica) that was created in May 2005 by the then Pope Benedict XVI through the bull "Saepe contingit".
Title VI of the modern constitution of Costa Rica, dated Nov. 7, 1948, made the Roman Catholic faith the country's national religion, adding that government would refrain from "impeding within the Republic the free exercise of other cults that do not oppose universal morality or good customs."
