The Diocese of Caguas (Latin: Dioecesis Caguana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in southeastern Puerto Rico in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico

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Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús
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Location
Country	Puerto Rico
Territory	Southeast portions of Puerto Rico
Ecclesiastical province	San Juan de Puerto Rico
Statistics
Area	492 sq mi (1,270 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 643,000 503,000 (78.2%)
Parishes	34
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Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	4 November 1964 (59 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús
Patron saint	María, Madre de la Iglesia (Mary, Mother of the Church)
Secular priests	43
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Eusebio Ramos Morales
Metropolitan Archbishop	Roberto González Nieves Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
Bishops emeritus	Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera
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The mother church of the Diocese of Caguas is the Catedral Dulce Nombre de Jesús (Cathedral of the Sweet Name of Jesus) in Caguas. As of 2023, the current bishop of Cagus is Eusebio Ramos Morales. The diocese was erected on November 4, 1964

The Diocese of Caguas includes the following municipalities:

Naranjito, Barranquitas, Comerío, Aguas Buenas, Caguas, Gurabo, Aibonito, Cidra, Cayey, San Lorenzo, Juncos, Las Piedras, Yabucoa, and Maunabo.^[1]

On 7 September 2018, Judge Edward Godoy ruled that the bankruptcy filed by the Archdiocese of San Juan would also apply to every Catholic diocese in Puerto Rico, including Caguas, and that all would now have their assets protected under Chapter 11.^[2][3]