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Diocese of Arauca

Araucen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Arauca, Colombia

Latin Church diocese seated at Arauca in eastern Colombia, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona. Erected on May 26, 1915 as an apostolic prefecture from the Apostolic Vicariate of Casanare, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1970 and to diocese on July 19, 1984. Its cathedral is the Catedral Santa Barbara in Arauca; Bishop Jaime Cristobal Abril Gonzalez has served since November 18, 2019.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1915
Latin
Araucen(sis)
Annuario code
001000718

The see in figures

Catholics
232,000
Population
262,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
88.5%
Priests
51
Catholics per priest
4,549
Extent
14,480 km²
Catholics per km²
16

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
Jaime Cristobal Abril Gonzalez
Born
17 July 1972
Birthplace
El Espino

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

Catedral Santa Barbara stands in Arauca, 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 Nueva Pamplona

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Arauca (Latin: Araucensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese seated in the city of Arauca, within Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Nueva Pamplona.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.