Puerto Rico Bishop David Alvarez visits Church Center in New York City

May 07, 2008 [Episcopal News Service] Bishop David Alvarez of the Diocese of Puerto Rico visited the Episcopal Church Center on May 6, bringing an update from his diocese.

The Diocese of Puerto Rico, an extra-provincial diocese connected to the Episcopal Church's Province IX, officially joined the Episcopal Church in 2003. According to Alvarez, it presently consists of 42,000 baptized members of which nearly 20,000 are active.

Operating several outreach ministries, including schools, hospitals and housing projects for the elderly and abused have made the diocese the third largest private-sector employer on the island.

Alvarez described his diocese, which consists of 50 congregations, as "very active and complicated." He said that the process has begun to call a bishop coadjutor that he hopes would be consecrated sometime in early 2009.

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