Diocese of Pasto
Pastopolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Pasto, Colombia
The Diocese of Pasto is a Latin Church diocese in the Department of Nariño, Colombia, erected in 1859 from the Diocese of Popayán. It is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Popayán.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 April 1859
- Latin
- Pastopolitan(us)
- Patron
- St. Ezequiel Moreno
- Annuario code
- 001002556
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 714,539
- Population
- 852,797
- Catholic share
- 83.8%
- Priests
- 168
- Catholics per priest
- 4,253
- Extent
- 6,813 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 105
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
- Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro
- Born
- 31 May 1968
- Birthplace
- Cartago (Colombia)
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 Sagrado Corazón de Jesús y San Ezequiel Moreno stands in Pasto, 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 Popayán
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Popayán.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
This Colombian diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Pastopolitana) has its seat in the city of Pasto and belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Popayán.
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].