Diocese of Tibú
Tibuen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tibú, Colombia
The Diocese of Tibú is a Latin Church diocese in Norte de Santander, Colombia, erected on December 29, 1998 from a former territorial prelature. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1998
- Latin
- Tibuen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001003223
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 233,740
- Population
- 190,000
- Priests
- 29
- Catholics per priest
- 8,060
- Extent
- 7,825 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 30
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
- Israel Bravo Cortés
- Born
- 4 June 1971
- Birthplace
- El Espinal
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 of San Luis Beltrán stands in Tibú, 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 Nueva Pamplona
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Nueva PamplonaNueva Pamplona
- Diocese of AraucaArauca
- Diocese of CúcutaCúcuta
- Diocese of OcañaOcaña
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Tibú, a city in Colombia's ecclesiastical province of Nueva Pamplona, serves as the seat of this diocese, known in Latin as Tibuensis.
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].