Diocese of Los Teques
Tequinen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Los Teques, Venezuela
The Diocese of Los Teques is a Latin Church diocese in Miranda State, Venezuela, erected in 1965 from the Archdiocese of Caracas, to which it is suffragan. Its bishop since December 2025 is Alberto Valentín Castillo García, who succeeded Freddy Jesús Fuenmayor Suárez.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 July 1965
- Latin
- Tequinen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Philip Neri
- Annuario code
- 001002049
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,100,000
- Population
- 1,300,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 84.6%
- Priests
- 57
- Catholics per priest
- 19,298
- Extent
- 2,295 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 479
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
- Alberto Valentín Castillo García
- Born
- 29 September 1969
- Birthplace
- La Guaira
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 Felipe Neri stands in Los Teques, 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 La GuairaLa Guaira
- Diocese of PetarePetare
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Los Teques (Latin: Dioecesis Tequinensis) has its seat in the city of Los Teques, within the ecclesiastical province of Caracas in Venezuela.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Curia Diocesana, Calle Guaicaipuro 115, Apartado 103, 1201 Los Teques, Edo. Miranda, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0212]321.96.92; 321.71.33; fax 322.33.01
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.