Diocese of Barinas
Barinen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Barinas, Venezuela
Latin rite diocese in Barinas state, western Venezuela. Erected 23 July 1965 by Pope Paul VI from territories of the Diocese of Calabozo and the Archdiocese of Merida; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Merida. Its cathedral is the Catedral de Nuestra Senora del Pilar in Barinas.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 July 1965
- Latin
- Barinen(sis)
- Patron
- Notre-Dame du Pilier
- Annuario code
- 001000834
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 609,000
- Population
- 647,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 94.1%
- Priests
- 67
- Catholics per priest
- 9,090
- Extent
- 35,200 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 17
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
- Jesus Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap.
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 Nuestra Senora del Pilar stands in Barinas, 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 Merida
A suffragan of Merida.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of GuasdualitoGuasdualito
- Diocese of San Cristóbal de VenezuelaSan Cristóbal de Venezuela
- Diocese of TrujilloTrujillo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In western Venezuela's land-locked Barinas state, the Diocese of Barinas (Latin: Dioecesis Barinensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of Mérida. Its cathedral, the Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, dedicated to Our Lady of the Pillar, stands in the state capital, likewise named Barinas.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Palacio Episcopal, Av. Briceño Méndez, Frente Plaza Bolívar, Barinas, Venezuela
- Telephone and fax
- [0273]533.28.39
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.