Diocese of Arauca
Araucen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Arauca, Colombia
Latin Church diocese seated at Arauca in eastern Colombia, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona. Erected on May 26, 1915 as an apostolic prefecture from the Apostolic Vicariate of Casanare, promoted to apostolic vicariate in 1970 and to diocese on July 19, 1984. Its cathedral is the Catedral Santa Barbara in Arauca; Bishop Jaime Cristobal Abril Gonzalez has served since November 18, 2019.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1915
- Latin
- Araucen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000718
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 232,000
- Population
- 262,000
- Catholic share
- 88.5%
- Priests
- 51
- Catholics per priest
- 4,549
- Extent
- 14,480 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 16
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Jaime Cristobal Abril Gonzalez
- Born
- 17 July 1972
- Birthplace
- El Espino
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 Santa Barbara stands in Arauca, 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 Nueva Pamplona
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Nueva PamplonaNueva Pamplona
- Diocese of CúcutaCúcuta
- Diocese of OcañaOcaña
- Diocese of TibúTibú
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Arauca (Latin: Araucensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese seated in the city of Arauca, within Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Nueva Pamplona.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].