Roman Catholic Diocese of Mandeville


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mandeville is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the St. Paul of the Cross Pro-Cathedral, in Mandeville, Jamaica, administrative Manchester Parish, in west-central Jamaica along the southern coast.
The see is currently vacant, under a temporary Apostolic administrator. On June 19, 2020, John Derek Persaud was appointed the new Bishop.

History

Erected on 15 April 1991, as the Apostolic Vicariate of Mandeville, on territories split off from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kingston in Jamaica and Diocese of Montego Bay.
It was elevated on 21 November 1997 as Diocese of Mandeville.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 5,925 Catholics on 3,282 km² in 20 parishes with 19 priests, 6 deacons and 29 lay religious.

Episcopal ordinaries

;Apostolic Vicar of Mandeville
;Suffragan Bishops of Mandeville