Diocese of La Guaira
Guairien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · La Guaira, Venezuela
The Diocese of La Guaira is a Latin Church diocese on the Venezuelan coast, erected in 1970 from the Archdiocese of Caracas, to which it is suffragan. Its bishop since January 2025 is Pablo Modesto González Pérez, S.D.B.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 April 1970
- Latin
- Guairien(sis)
- Patron
- san Pedro Apóstol
- Annuario code
- 001001938
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 295,750
- Population
- 325,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 91.0%
- Priests
- 45
- Catholics per priest
- 6,572
- Extent
- 1,497 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 198
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
- Pablo Modesto González Pérez
- Born
- 30 June 1959
- Birthplace
- San Antonio de Los Altos
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ SALESIANA DI S. GIOVANNI BOSCO (SALESIANI)
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 San Pedro Apóstol stands in La Guaira, 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 Caracas
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Caracas.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CaracasCaracas
- Diocese of GuarenasGuarenas
- Diocese of Los TequesLos Teques
- Diocese of PetarePetare
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the city of La Guaira, within the ecclesiastical province of Caracas in Venezuela, sits the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Guaira (Latin: Dioecesis Guairiensis).
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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.