Obispado de Mao

It is a place where diocesan priests from the diocese of the northern region live, specifically Mao and Montecristi. It is of Catholic religion and has large spaces designed to improve the coexistence of people, helping them in every sense of the word.

Beautiful and presentable the rest is not.

Beautiful stay as everything of the Catholic Church.

The Diocese Mao-Montecristi was erected through the bull "Studiosi inatar" of Pope Paul VI Rome January 16 in 1978, as suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, until February 14, 1994, when a new bull of Pope John Paul II «Solicitam sane cura» created the Archbishopric of Santiago de los Caballeros, whose Suffragan Diocese would be La Vega, San Francisco de Macoris and Mao-Montecristi. Two years later, when the Diocese of Puerto Plata was created on December 16, 1996, it would be added to those that today make up the Ecclesiastical Province of Santiago. The Episcopal ordination of his first Pastor, Jerónimo Tomás Abreu was celebrated on March 4, 1978, in the city of Mao, in the open air, being consecrated Bishop Cardinal Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, assisted by Bishop Roque Antonio Adames Rguez., Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros and Bishop Juan Antonio Flores Santana, Bishop of La Vega. At the beginning of his institutional life, the new Diocese of Mao-Montecristi and once his first Bishop, Bishop Tomás Abreu, took office on the same day of his Episcopal ordination, he had a population of 296,846 inhabitants. Distributed in an area of ​​4,814.30 km2. In the four civil provinces that make it up, there were 12 parishes and 60 chapels, 6 teaching centers at one level or another, 6 health centers or dispensaries, 2 centers for human and religious formation and promotion (in addition to a radio station) and they worked in one or another apostolate, mostly educational, 8 religious communities (five women and three men). The diocese had only 18 Priests (six diocesan and twelve religious).

Priests and Nuns live in this place