Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Carreño
Portus Carrenien(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Puerto Carreño, Colombia
The Apostolic Vicariate of Puerto Carreno is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction in Vichada department, eastern Colombia, exempt and directly dependent on the Holy See through the Dicastery for Evangelization. It was erected on 22 December 1999 from the suppressed Apostolic Prefecture of Vichada. Its seat is the Catedral Nuestra Senora del Carmen in Puerto Carreno.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 December 1999
- Latin
- Portus Carrenien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000440
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 40,100
- Population
- 42,250
- Catholic share
- 94.9%
- Priests
- 18
- Catholics per priest
- 2,228
- Extent
- 71,368 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.6
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
- Alvaro Mon Perez, C.Ss.R.
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 Nuestra Senora del Carmen stands in Puerto Carreño, 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
The city of Puerto Carreño in Colombia is home to this apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church, whose Latin name is Apostolicus Vicariatus Portus Carreniensis.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Avenida Orinoco N. 7-19, Puerto Carreño [Vichada], Colombia
- Telephone
- 318.4214.466
- [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].