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Diocese of Santa Marta

Sanctae Marthae

The Diocese of Santa Marta is one of the oldest sees in the Americas, a Latin rite diocese on Colombia's Caribbean coast, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Barranquilla. It was erected on 10 January 1534 from the Diocese of Santo Domingo. Its seat is the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Martha in Santa Marta, among the oldest cathedrals in South America.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
10 January 1534
Latin
Sanctae Marthae
Patron
Saint Martha
Annuario code
001002953

The see in figures

Catholics
863,000
Population
780,000
Priests
76
Catholics per priest
11,355
Extent
14,216 km²
Catholics per km²
61

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
Jose Mario Bacci Trespalacios, C.I.M.

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

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Martha stands in Santa Marta, 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 Barranquilla

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Barranquilla.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Santa Marta, a city in Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Barranquilla, is the seat of this diocese, known in Latin as Sanctae Marthae.

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.

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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].