DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church are regarded as highly influential in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican government over the years has been highly supportive of the churches, especially the Roman Catholic Church. All presidential aspirants and Presidents have routinely visited with the Pope in Rome.

The focus is now on the recent appointments of Carlos Tomas Morel Diplan as coadjutor bishop for the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo and that of Manuel Ruiz as bishop of the newly created Stella Maris diocese in Eastern Santo Domingo, a region that has the largest in population in the Dominican Republic.

The series of recent announcements by the Roman Catholic Church and parallel support of the Dominican government to church officials have kept the happenings of the Roman curia in the Dominican media. It is that an extraordinary consistory, or the meeting of the College of Cardinals was called on 6 November 2025 from the Vatican See. Pope Leo XIV convened the...