Archdiocese of Camagüey
Camagueyen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Camagüey, Cuba
The Archdiocese of Camaguey is a Latin rite metropolitan see in central Cuba, with suffragans Ciego de Avila, Cienfuegos and Santa Clara. Erected as the Diocese of Camaguey on 10 December 1912 from the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, it was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 5 December 1998. Its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Candelaria in Camaguey, a minor basilica.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 December 1912
- Latin
- Camagueyen(sis)
- Patron
- N-D de la Purification
- Annuario code
- 001001026
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 510,800
- Population
- 861,372
- Catholic share
- 59.3%
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 18,919
- Extent
- 18,671 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 27
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
- Archbishop
- Wilfredo Pino Estevez
- Born
- 12 October 1950
- Birthplace
- Camagüey
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 Our Lady of Candelaria stands in Camagüey, 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 Camaguey
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Ciego de ÁvilaCiego de Ávila
- Diocese of CienfuegosCienfuegos
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
First erected in 1912 as the Diocese of Camagüey and raised to archiepiscopal rank in 1998, Camagüey is a Metropolitan Archdiocese with responsibility for the dioceses of Ciego de Avila, Cienfuegos and Santa Clara.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Calle Luaces 55, entre Academia y República, Camagüey 70100, Cuba
- Telephone
- [032]2853.33; fax 2871.43
- [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].