Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponce

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The Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, situated in the middle of the Plaza Las Delicias in Ponce.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, situated in the middle of the Plaza Las Delicias in Ponce.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponce is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and consists of the southern part of the island of Puerto Rico, an American commonwealth. The diocese is led by a prelate bishop which pastors the motherchurch in the City of Ponce, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Its current bishop is S.E.R. Mons. Felix Lázaro Martínez, Sch. P.

The See of Ponce was canonically erected on November 21, 1924 and is a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan Province of San Juan de Puerto Rico.

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