title: Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro
text: # Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro
  
  The Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Buccae Taurinae) is a Latin ecclesiastical circumscription suffragan to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Panamá.
  
  Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen (dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel), in Bocas del Toro, on Isla Colón, in Panama's western, Atlantic Bocas del Toro province.
  
  ## History
  
  It was established on 17 October 1962 as Territorial Prelature on territory split off from the Roman Catholic Diocese of David.
  
  ## Prelate Ordinaries
  
  (all Roman Rite, so far members of a Latin congregation)
  
  ### Bishop-prelates of Boca del Toro
  
  * Martin Legarra Tellechea, Order of Augustinian Recollects (O.A.R.) (1963.11.06 – 1969.04.03), Titular Bishop of Luperciana (1965.03.18 – 1969.04.03); later Bishop of Santiago de Veraguas (Panama) (1969.04.03 – 1975.02.15)
  * José Agustín Ganuza García, O.A.R. (1970.03.12 – 2008.05.01), Titular Bishop of Pauzera (1972.02.04 – 1977.11.18)
  * Aníbal Saldaña Santamaría, O.A.R. (2008.05.01 – ...)
  