Roman Catholic Diocese of Cienfuegos

Diocese of Cienfuegos Dioecesis Centumfocencis
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción
Location
Country	Cuba
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Camagüey
Metropolitan	Cienfuegos
Statistics
Area	5,360 km2 (2,070 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 485,000 293,600 (60.5%)
Parishes	22
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	20 February 1903 (121 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Domingo Oropesa Lorente
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cienfuegos is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Camagüey. The original Diocese of Cienfuegos was erected in 1903 and renamed as the Diocese of Cienfuegos-Santa Clara in 1971. That diocese was split in 1995 to form the Dioceses of Cienfuegos and Santa Clara.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Antonio Aurelio Torres y Sanz, OCD (1904 - 1916)
• Valentín Zubizarreta y Unamunsaga, OCD (1922 - 1925), appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba
• Eduardo Pedro Martínez y Dalmau, CP (1935 - 1961)
• Alfredo Antonio Francisco Müller y San Martín (1961 - 1971)
• Fernando Ramon Prego Casal (1971 - 1995)
• Emilio Aranguren Echeverria (1995 - 2005)
• Domingo Oropesa Lorente (since 2007)

Auxiliary bishops

• Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernández (1969-1970), appointed Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Habana
• Fernando Ramon Prego Casal (1969-1970), appointed Bishop here
• Emilio Aranguren Echeverria (1991-1995), appointed Bishop here

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Marcelo Arturo González Amador, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Clara in 1998

External links and references

• "Diocese of Cienfuegos". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-12.