Diocese of Barentu
Barentuan(us)
Suffragan eparchy · Alexandrian tradition · Barentu, Eritrea
The Eparchy of Barentu is an Eritrean Catholic Church (Alexandrian rite) eparchy in Eritrea, established in 1995 and transferred to the Eritrean Catholic Church in 2015 as a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Asmara. Eparch Thomas Osman, O.F.M. Cap., has led it since 2001.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Alexandrian tradition
- Erected
- 21 December 1995
- Latin
- Barentuan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000830
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 56,000
- Population
- 1,068,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 5.2%
- Priests
- 29
- Catholics per priest
- 1,931
- Extent
- 37,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.5
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
- Eparch
- Thomas Osman, O.F.M. Cap.
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 St. Michael, Barentu stands in Barentu, 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 Asmara
A suffragan of Archeparchy of Asmara.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AsmaraAsmara
- Diocese of KerenKeren
- Diocese of SegheneitySegheneity
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Eparchy, P.O. Box 9, Barentu [Gash-Barka], Eritrea
- Telephone
- [01]73.10.10; fax 73.11.24
- diakoniaba@yahoo.it
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.