Diocese of Petare
Petaren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Petare, Venezuela
The Diocese of Petare is a Latin Church diocese in the Sucre municipality of Miranda State, Venezuela, erected in 2021 from the Archdiocese of Caracas, to which it is suffragan. Its first and current bishop is Juan Carlos Bravo Salazar.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 November 2021
- Latin
- Petaren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001005106
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 760,000
- Population
- 760,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 100.0%
- Priests
- 18
- Catholics per priest
- 42,222
- Extent
- 177 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4,294
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
- Juan Carlos Bravo Salazar
- Born
- 3 January 1965
- Birthplace
- El Pilar
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 Señora del Rosario stands in Petare, 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 Los TequesLos Teques
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Petare, within the ecclesiastical province of Caracas, gives its name to a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Petarensis) whose territory corresponds to the civil department of the municipality of Sucre, Miranda. It was formed from five civil parishes that had until then belonged to the metropolitan archdiocese of Caracas. As of 2021 the diocese comprised 23 parishes, served by 57 priests, with 5 seminarians in formation.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Avenida Mosén Sol, El Marqués, Petare, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0212]238.64.76
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.