Diocese of Humahuaca
Humahuacen(sis)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Humahuaca, Argentina
Humahuaca is a Latin Church territorial prelature in Jujuy Province, Argentina, erected in 1969 from territory of the Diocese of Jujuy and the Archdiocese of Salta. Its ordinary holds episcopal rank and it is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Salta.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 September 1969
- Latin
- Humahuacen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Candelaria
- Annuario code
- 001000269
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 80,000
- Population
- 95,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 84.2%
- Priests
- 14
- Catholics per priest
- 5,714
- Extent
- 34,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.4
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Florencio Félix Paredes Cruz, C.R.L.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of Candelaria stands in Humahuaca, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Salta
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Salta.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CafayateCafayate
- Diocese of CatamarcaCatamarca
- Diocese of JujuyJujuy
- Diocese of OránOrán
- Archdiocese of SaltaSalta
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Prelatura, Calle Buenos Aires 383, y4630bcg Humahuaca [Jujuy], Argentina
- Telephone and fax
- [03887]421.018
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.