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Diocese of Istmina-Tadó

Istminan(us)-Taduan(us)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Istmina, Colombia

Latin-rite diocese in the Choco department on Colombia's Pacific coast, with sees at Istmina and Tado, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe de Antioquia. The jurisdiction of Istmina was erected on 14 November 1952 from the church territory of Choco and took its present form as the Diocese of Istmina-Tado on 30 April 1990. Its seat is the Cathedral of San Pablo Apostol in Istmina, with the Co-Cathedral of San Jose in Tado.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1952
Latin
Istminan(us)-Taduan(us)
Patron
N-D du Mont-Carmel
Annuario code
001001687

The see in figures

Catholics
181,000
Population
206,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
87.9%
Priests
61
Catholics per priest
2,967
Extent
22,240 km²
Catholics per km²
8.1

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
Mario de Jesus Alvarez Gomez
Born
19 October 1959
Birthplace
San Sebastián de Palmitas

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 de San Pablo Apostol, Istmina stands in Istmina, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

Its co-cathedral is Concatedral San Jose de Tado.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Santa Fe de Antioquia

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santa Fe de Antioquia.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Two cities, Istmina and Tadó, together anchor this Colombian diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Istminana-Taduana), which lies within the ecclesiastical province of Santa Fe de Antioquia.

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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.