Diocese of Barentu
Barentuan(us)
Suffragan eparchy · Alexandrian tradition · Barentu, Eritrea
The Eparchy of Barentu is an Eritrean Catholic Church (Alexandrian rite) eparchy in Eritrea, established in 1995 and transferred to the Eritrean Catholic Church in 2015 as a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Asmara. Eparch Thomas Osman, O.F.M. Cap., has led it since 2001.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Alexandrian tradition
- Erected
- 21 December 1995
- Latin
- Barentuan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000830
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 56,000
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
- Eparch
- Thomas Osman, O.F.M. Cap.
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
Cathedral of St. Michael, Barentu stands in Barentu, 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 Asmara
A suffragan of Archeparchy of Asmara.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AsmaraAsmara
- Diocese of KerenKeren
- Diocese of SegheneitySegheneity
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Eparchy, P.O. Box 9, Barentu [Gash-Barka], Eritrea
- Telephone
- [01]73.10.10; fax 73.11.24
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery 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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].