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Diocese of Tibú

Tibuen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tibú, Colombia

The Diocese of Tibú is a Latin Church diocese in Norte de Santander, Colombia, erected on December 29, 1998 from a former territorial prelature. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1998
Latin
Tibuen(sis)
Annuario code
001003223

The see in figures

Catholics
233,740
Population
190,000
Priests
29
Catholics per priest
8,060
Extent
7,825 km²
Catholics per km²
30

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
Israel Bravo Cortés
Born
4 June 1971
Birthplace
El Espinal

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 San Luis Beltrán stands in Tibú, 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

Tibú, a city in Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Nueva Pamplona, serves as the seat of this diocese, known in Latin as Tibuensis.

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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.