Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau

Archdiocese of Nassau Archidioecesis Nassaviensis
Location
Country	The Bahamas
Territory	The Bahamas
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Nassau
Metropolitan	Nassau
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 340,400 50,202 (14.7%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Rite	Latin or Roman Rite
Established	March 21, 1929
Cathedral	St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Nassau
Patron saint	St. Francis Xavier, St. Therese of Lisieux
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Patrick Christopher Pinder
Website
archdioceseofnassau.org

The Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau (Latin: Archidioecesis Nassaviensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The diocese encompasses the islands of the former British dependency of the Bahamas. The Archdiocese is the Metropolitan responsible for the suffragan diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda and the Mission sui iuris of Turks and Caicos, and is a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.

The diocese was originally erected as the Prefecture Apostolic of the Bahama in March 1929, and was subsequently elevated to the Vicariate Apostolic of the Bahama Islands in January 1941, and then to a full diocese, as the diocese of Nassau in June 1960. On June 22, 1999, the diocese was again elevated as the new Archdiocese of Nassau.

As of 2004, the diocese contains 30 parishes, 15 active diocesan priests, 14 religious priests, and 48,000 Catholics. It also has 28 Women Religious, 14 Religious Brothers, and 13 permanent deacons.

Ordinaries

• John Bernard Kevenhoerster O.S.B. (1931–1949)
• Paul Leonard Hagarty O.S.B. (1950–1981)
• Lawrence Aloysius Burke (1981–2004)
• Patrick Christopher Pinder (2004–present)

References

• Archdiocese of Nassau page at catholichierarchy.org retrieved July 18, 2006