Diocese of Infanta
Infanten(sis)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Infanta, Philippines
The Territorial Prelature of Infanta covers the northern part of Quezon province, the Polillo Islands, and the province of Aurora in the Philippines. Erected in 1950, it falls under the ecclesiastical province of Lipa.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 April 1950
- Latin
- Infanten(sis)
- Patron
- Divine Infant Jesus of Prague and Saint Mark the Evangelist
- Annuario code
- 001000271
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 373,000
- Population
- 512,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 72.9%
- Priests
- 64
- Catholics per priest
- 5,828
- Extent
- 7,189 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 52
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
- Dave Dean Capucao
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 the Divine Infant Jesus of Prague and St. Mark the Evangelist stands in Infanta, 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 Lipa
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lipa.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BoacBoac
- Diocese of CalapanCalapan
- Diocese of GumacaGumaca
- Archdiocese of LipaLipa
- Diocese of LucenaLucena
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
By the papal bull "Precibus annuentes" of April 25, 1950, the Territorial Prelature of Infanta (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Infantensis) was established from a portion of the then-Diocese of Lipa. This Latin Catholic territorial prelature sits in the municipality of Infanta, Quezon, within the ecclesiastical province of Lipa in the Philippines. Some municipalities of the civil province of Isabela were added to it in 1953, but on August 16, 1955, that territory returned to the Diocese of Tuguegarao.
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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.