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The Diocese of San Isidro de El General (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Isidori is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Costa Rica. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. It was erected as a diocese on 19 August 1954.

Bishops

Ordinaries

• Delfín Quesada Castro (1954−1974)
• Ignacio Nazareno Trejos Picado (1974−2003)
• Guillermo Loría Garita (2003−2013)
• Gabriel Enrique Montero Umaña, O.F.M. Conv. (2013–2021)
• Juan Miguel Castro Rojas (2021–present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Hugo Barrantes Ureña, appointed Bishop of Puntarenas in 1998

Territorial losses

References

External links

• "Diocese of San Isidro de El General". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-15. ^{[self-published]}

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