Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica

The Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica. A metropolitan see, there are seven suffragan dioceses in its ecclesiastical province: the Diocese of Alajuela, Cartago, Ciudad Quesada, Limón, Puntarenas, San Isidro de El General, and Tilarán. 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.

Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica Archidioecesis Sancti Iosephi in Costarica Arquidiócesis de San José
Catedral Metropolitana San José
Location
Country	Costa Rica
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San José de Costa Rica
Statistics
Area	2,208 km2 (853 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2020) 2,138,345 1,519,860 (71.1%)
Parishes	107
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	28 February 1850 (174 years ago)
Cathedral	Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Joseph
Secular priests	260 (diocesan) 112 (Religious Orders) 21 Permanent Deacons
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	José Rafael Quirós
Auxiliary Bishops	Daniel Francisco Blanco Méndez
Map
Website
www.arquisanjose.org

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)
• Hugo Barrantes Ureña (2002–2013)
• José Rafael Quirós Quirós (2013– )

Auxiliary bishops

• Ignacio Nazareno Trejos Picado (1968-1974), appointed Bishop of San Isidro de El General
• Antonio Troyo Calderón (1979-2002)
• Daniel Francisco Blanco Méndez (2017-

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Antonio del Carmen Monestel y Zamora, 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

Year	Along with	To form
1921		Diocese of Alajuela
1921		Vicariate Apostolic of Limón
1954	Diocese of Alajuela	Diocese of San Isidro de El General
2005	Diocese of Limón	Diocese of Cartago

See also

• Catholic Church in Costa Rica
• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Costa Rica

External links

• Arquidiocesis de San José Costa Rica official site (in Spanish)
• "Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-13. ^{[self-published]}
• Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "San José de Costa Rica" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. [Obsolete; cite the second edition]