Diocese of Valle de la Pascua
Vallispaschalen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Valle de la Pascua, Venezuela
The Latin rite Diocese of Valle de la Pascua in Guarico state, Venezuela, was erected on 25 July 1992 from territory of the Diocese of Calabozo. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Calabozo, its cathedral is Our Lady of Candelaria Cathedral in Valle de la Pascua.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 July 1992
- Latin
- Vallispaschalen(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
- Annuario code
- 001000069
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 352,000
- Population
- 360,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 97.8%
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 13,037
- Extent
- 37,900 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 9.3
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
- Ricardo Aldo Barreto Cairo
- Born
- 7 July 1968
- Birthplace
- Panamá
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
Our Lady of Candelaria Cathedral stands in Valle de la Pascua, 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 Calabozo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Calabozo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CalabozoCalabozo
- Diocese of San Fernando de ApureSan Fernando de Apure
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Valle de la Pascua, this Latin Church diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Vallispaschalensis) serves as a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Calabozo in Venezuela.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Calle España 1, Urb. Guamachal, Quinta « Villa de la Paz », Valle de la Pascua 2307, Edo. Guárico, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0235]3422.411
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.