Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Quesada

The Diocese of Ciudad Quesada 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. the episcopal see is Ciudad Quesada (or, more simply, Quesada; alternatively known as San Carlos). Ciudad Quesada is the capital of the District of Ciudad Quesada, and of the larger Canton of San Carlos, which is in turn part of Alajuela Province. The diocese was erected on 25 July 1995.

Diocese of Ciudad Quesada Dioecesis Civitatis Quesadensis Diócesis de Ciudad Quesada
Catedral San Carlos Borromeo
Location
Country	Costa Rica
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San José de Costa Rica
Metropolitan	Hugo Barrantes Ureña
Statistics
Area	9,838 km2 (3,798 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 267,645 214,116 (80%)
Parishes	18
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	25 July 1995 (28 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Charles Borromeo
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	José Manuel Garita Herrera
Map

On 31 December 2012, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Bishop Oswaldo Brenes Álvarez from the pastoral governance of the diocese; there was no immediate replacement, so the diocese was a sede vacante (vacant see).[1]