Apostolic Vicariate of Trinidad
Triniten(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Trinidad, Colombia
The Apostolic Vicariate of Trinidad is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction in Casanare department, Colombia, exempt and directly dependent on the Holy See, entrusted to the Augustinian Recollects. It was erected on 29 October 1999 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Casanare. Its seat is the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion in Trinidad.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 October 1999
- Latin
- Triniten(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000464
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 45,000
- Population
- 42,294
- Priests
- 12
- Catholics per priest
- 3,750
- Extent
- 27,075 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.7
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
- Hector Javier Pizarro Acevedo, O.A.R.
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 la Inmaculada Concepcion stands in Trinidad, 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 Trinidad, in Casanare, Colombia, the Catholic Church maintains this apostolic vicariate, carried in Latin as Apostolicus Vicariatus Trinitensis.
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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.