Apostolic Vicariate of Mitú
Mituen(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Mitú, Colombia
Latin-rite apostolic vicariate covering the Vaupes department in southeastern Colombia, seated at Mitu. Established as an apostolic prefecture on 9 June 1949 by Pope Pius XII from the Apostolic Vicariate of Los Llanos de San Martin, it was elevated in 1989 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Mitu-Puerto Inirida and took its present form in 1996 when Inirida was split off. Its seat is the Cathedral Maria Inmaculada in Mitu.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 November 1996
- Latin
- Mituen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000427
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 15,200
- Population
- 29,400
- Catholic share
- 51.7%
- Priests
- 21
- Catholics per priest
- 724
- Extent
- 54,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.3
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
- Medardo de Jesus Henao del Rio, M.X.Y.
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 Maria Inmaculada, Mitu stands in Mitú, 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
A Latin pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Colombia, the Vicariate Apostolic of Mitú (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Mituensis) is exempt, answering immediately to the Holy See rather than belonging to any ecclesiastical province, and depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral and episcopal see, the Catedral María Inmaculada, dedicated to Mary Immaculate, stands in the city of Mitú in Vaupés Department.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Casa Episcopal, Calle 14 N. 13-72, Mitú [Vaupés], Colombia
- Telephone
- 304.5474.796
- [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].