Diocese of Puerto Cabello
Portus Cabellen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Latin rite diocese on the Carabobo state coast of Venezuela, with its see at the port city of Puerto Cabello. Erected 5 July 1994 from the Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela, of which it is a suffragan. Its cathedral is the Catedral San Jose.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 July 1994
- Latin
- Portus Cabellen(sis)
- Patron
- San José
- Annuario code
- 001002676
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 270,000
- Population
- 300,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 90.0%
- Priests
- 20
- Catholics per priest
- 13,500
- Extent
- 729 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 370
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
- Saul Figueroa Albornoz
- Born
- 23 October 1947
- Birthplace
- Caracas
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 San Jose stands in Puerto Cabello, 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 Valencia en Venezuela
A suffragan of Valencia en Venezuela.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of MaracayMaracay
- Diocese of San Carlos de VenezuelaSan Carlos de Venezuela
- Archdiocese of ValenciaValencia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The port city of Puerto Cabello is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Portus Cabellensis) within the ecclesiastical province of Valencia en Venezuela.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Calle Bolívar 3-18, Zona Colonial, Puerto Cabello, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0242]361.92.48; fax 361.08.77
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.