Roman Catholic Diocese of San Isidro de El General

Diocese of San Isidro de El General Dioecesis Sancti Isidori Diócesis de San Isidro de El General
File:IglesiaPZ.jpg Catedral de San Isidro Labrador
Location
Country	Costa Rica
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San José de Costa Rica
Metropolitan	José Rafael Quirós Quirós
Statistics
Area	10,346 km2 (3,995 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 369,000 359,000 (97.3%)
Parishes	26
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	19 August 1954 (70 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Isidore
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Juan Miguel Castro Rojas
Bishops emeritus	Ignacio Nazareno Trejos Picado Guillermo Loría Garita Gabriel Enrique Montero Umaña, O.F.M. Conv.
Map
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The Diocese of San Isidro de El General (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Isidori is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province 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, O.F.M. Conv. (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

Year	Along with	To form
1998	Diocese of Tilarán	Diocese of Puntarenas

External links

• "Diocese of San Isidro de El General". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-15. ^{[self-published]}