Diocese of San José del Guaviare
Sancti Iosephi a Guaviare
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San José del Guaviare, Colombia
The Diocese of San José del Guaviare is a Latin Church diocese in the Department of Guaviare, Colombia, established as an apostolic vicariate in 1989 and promoted to a diocese in 1999. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Villavicencio.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 January 1989
- Latin
- Sancti Iosephi a Guaviare
- Patron
- St. Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001002909
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 108,500
- Population
- 120,000
- Catholic share
- 90.4%
- Priests
- 21
- Catholics per priest
- 5,167
- Extent
- 42,327 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.6
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
- Bishop
- Jesús Alberto Torres Ariza
- Born
- 6 June 1975
- Birthplace
- Urumita
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 San José stands in San José del Guaviare, 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 Villavicencio
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Villavicencio.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of VillavicencioVillavicencio
- Diocese of Granada en ColombiaGranada
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
San José del Guaviare, a city within Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Villavicencio, is the seat of this diocese, whose Latin name is Sancti Iosephi a Guaviare.
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].