San Juan and San Luis de Portsmouth (Dominica)
The Catholic temple of Portsmouth, the second population of Dominica, is the church of St. John and St. Louis, on Pembroke Street, of the diocese of Roseau, erected in 1850. The present temple was dedicated on August 18, 2017.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- The diocese of Roseau, erected on April 30, 1850, is one of the oldest Catholic sites in the Eastern Caribbean; its cathedral is Our Lady of the Good Port.
- The temple of Portsmouth was dedicated on August 18, 2017 after its renovation.
- The diocese has fourteen parishes; among them there is one of Our Lady of Fatima, in Newtown, next to Roseau.
- The redeemers have marked the Catholic life of the island, with two coadjutor bishops of the congregation and brother Ildephonse Lepas, author of the murals of the cathedral.
San Juan y San Luis (Portsmouth)
In the second population of Dominica, the Catholic community meets under the patronage of St. John and St. Louis, on a Caribbean island with a deep Catholic root where Mary is venerated in Fatima of Newtown and in the Good Port of Roseau.
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