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 (civil) Manchester Parish, in west-central Jamaica along the southern coast. The current bishop is John Derek Persaud, who was appointed on June 19, 2020. 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 (1.0% of 586,200 total) on 3,282 km² in 20 parishes with 19 priests (17 diocesan, 2 religious), 6 deacons and 29 lay religious (6 brothers, 23 sisters). Episcopal ordinaries. (all Roman Rite; so far missionary members of a Latin congregation)