Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Gaitán
Portus Gaitan(us)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Puerto Gaitán, Colombia
The Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Gaitan is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction in Meta department, Colombia, exempt and directly dependent on the Holy See. It was erected on 22 December 1999 from the suppressed Apostolic Prefecture of Vichada and territory of the Diocese of Villavicencio. Its seat is the Catedral Maria Madre de la Iglesia in Puerto Gaitan.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 December 1999
- Latin
- Portus Gaitan(us)
- Patron
- María, Madre de la Iglesia y San Luis María Grignion de Montfort
- Annuario code
- 001000441
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 203,200
- Population
- 122,000
- Priests
- 22
- Catholics per priest
- 9,236
- Extent
- 50,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.0
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Raul Alfonso Carrillo Martinez
- Born
- 22 September 1964
- Birthplace
- Ubaté
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 Maria Madre de la Iglesia stands in Puerto Gaitán, 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.
History
In the town of Puerto Gaitán in Colombia, the Catholic Church maintains this apostolic vicariate, known in Latin as Apostolicus Vicariatus Portus Gaitani.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catedral Maria Madre de la Iglesia, Carrera 10 N. 22-11, Barrio Alto Manacacías, Puerto Gaitán [Meta], Colombia
- Telephone
- 313.4119.791
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.