Apostolic Vicariate of Guapi
Guapien(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Guapi, Colombia
Latin-rite apostolic vicariate on Colombia's Pacific coast, seated at Guapi in the Cauca department and covering the municipalities of Guapi, Lopez and Timbiqui. Established on 5 April 1954 as an apostolic prefecture from the Prefecture of Tumaco, it was elevated to an apostolic vicariate on 13 February 2001. Its seat is the Cathedral of La Inmaculada Concepcion in Guapi.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 January 2001
- Latin
- Guapien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000408
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 128,000
- Population
- 132,000
- Catholic share
- 97.0%
- Priests
- 17
- Catholics per priest
- 7,529
- Extent
- 10,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 13
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Alfonso Garcia Lopez
- Born
- 23 February 1971
- Birthplace
- Juradó
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 La Inmaculada Concepcion, Guapi stands in Guapi, 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.
History
In the town of Guapi, in Cauca, Colombia, the Catholic Church maintains this apostolic vicariate, known in Latin as Apostolicus Vicariatus Guapiensis.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Carrera 2 N. 6-07, Guapi [Cauca], Colombia
- Telephone
- e fax [602]840.09.83
- [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].