Roman Catholic Diocese of Paramaribo
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Paramaribo (erected 22 November 1817, as the Prefecture Apostolic of Dutch Guyana-Suriname) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port of Spain
. It was elevated to an apostolic vicariate on 12 September 1842 and to the Diocese of Paramaribo on 7 May 1958.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain is a metropolitan diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The Archdiocese encompasses the entirety of the former Spanish dependency of Trinidad, including the islands of Trinidad and Tobago...
. It was elevated to an apostolic vicariate on 12 September 1842 and to the Diocese of Paramaribo on 7 May 1958.
Ordinaries
- Martinus van der Weijden (1826 - 1826)
- Jacobus Grooff (1842 - 1852)
- Jacobus Gerardus Schepers (1843 - 1863)
- Johannes Baptist Swinkels, C.SS.R. (1865 - 1875)
- Johannes Henricus Schaap, C.SS.R. (1876 - 1889)
- Wilhelmus Antonius Ferdinand Wulfingh, C.SS.R. (1889 - 1906)
- Jacobus Cornelis Meeuwissen, C.SS.R. (1907 - 1911)
- Theodorus Antonius Leonardus Maria van Roosmalen, C.SS.R. (1911 - 1947)
- Stephanus Joseph Maria Magdalena Kuijpers, C.SS.R. (1946 - 1971)
- Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem, C.SS.R. (1971 - 2003) - Bishop Emeritus
- Wilhelmus Adrianus Josephus Maria de Bekker (2004 - )
External links and references
- Diocese of Paramaribo - Suriname official site