 As of 2006, the diocese contained 47 parishes, 35 active diocesan priests, 23 religious priests and 310,000 Catholics.It also has 171 Women Religious and 33 Religious Brothers.The diocese received its present status on 27 September 1850, when the Apostolic Prefecture of Îles de la Terre Ferme (which had lost French Guyana in 1731) was promoted from the missionary status of Apostolic Prefecture to Diocese of Martinique (Latin