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The Diocese of Arecibo (Latin: Dioecesis Arecibensis Spanish: Diócesis de Arecibo) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church and consists of half of the northern portion of the island of Puerto Rico, [1] a commonwealth of the United States. The mother church is the Catedral de San Felipe Apostol located in ...
July 19, 1995 (Spanning Río Grande de Arecibo, west of Puerto Rico Highway 2: Cambalache and Tanamá: Steel bridge built by the Puerto Rico Railway Company in 1893 spanning the Arecibo River as a connector between San Juan and Arecibo.
It was their fourth settlement on the island, after Caparra (which later became San Juan), San German, and Coamo. [9] Arecibo was officially founded as a town [10] by the Spanish crown on May 1, 1616, under the governorship of Captain Felipe de Beaumont y Navarra, when the King of Spain granted the land (and the Taino living there) to Lope ...
Fishing at Rio Abacoa in Arecibo. Aracibo governed a tribe whose village was located by the shore of the river "Abacoa" (now known as the "Río Grande de Arecibo"). Aracibo had been known to be a "just" and respected cacique and his tribe had led a peaceful existence before the arrival of the Spaniards. The rivers close to the village were full ...
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The cathedral of Arecibo is Puerto Rico's second-largest church after the Catedral Metropolitana Basílica de San Juan Bautista. The plan is rectangular with three naves; the side naves are cut short to allow large flanking chapels, which occupy almost half the length of the church.
Located across from the central plaza in Arecibo barrio-pueblo is the Catedral San Felipe Apostól, [9] the second-largest Roman Catholic church in Puerto Rico. It was built in 1616, then reconstructed in 1793. After the ceiling of the central nave was damaged by the 1918 San Fermín earthquake it was reconstructed in concrete. [10]
He has been bishop of the Diocese of Arecibo in Puerto Rico since 2022. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Juan in Puerto Rico from 2019 to 2022. He was a member of the Capuchin Friars for several years while preparing for the priesthood and again from 1991 to 2010 while a priest. He became a secular priest of the ...