The St. Bernard ChurchChurch of San Bernardo, Kralendijk, Bonaire () is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the city of Kralendijk, the capital of the Caribbean island of Bonaire, a territory in the Caribbean Netherlands organised as a special municipality of the Netherlands in the Antilles.
The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and depends on the Catholic Diocese of Willemstad on the neighbouring island of Curaçao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The yellow and white colour scheme and its triangular main part stands out, and is topped by a cross. It is adjacent next to the bell tower. It offers mass in the local language Papiamento.
Two previous churches in honour of St. Bernard were built on this site: one in the eighteenth century and the other in 1829. The current church was built in 1948.
See also Roman Catholicism in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Roman Catholic Diocese of Willemstad
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