Diocese of Cienfuegos
Centumfocen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Cienfuegos, Cuba
The Diocese of Cienfuegos is a Latin rite diocese on Cuba's southern coast, suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Camaguey. Erected on 20 February 1903 from the Diocese of San Cristobal de la Habana, it was renamed Cienfuegos-Santa Clara in 1971 and split back into separate dioceses in 1995. Its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Cienfuegos.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 February 1903
- Latin
- Centumfocen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001156
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 294,200
- Population
- 485,000
- Catholic share
- 60.7%
- Priests
- 15
- Catholics per priest
- 19,613
- Extent
- 5,360 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 55
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
- Domingo Oropesa Lorente
- Born
- 10 October 1950
- Birthplace
- Alcázar de San Juan
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 the Immaculate Conception stands in Cienfuegos, 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
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Camaguey.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CamagüeyCamagüey
- Diocese of Ciego de ÁvilaCiego de Ávila
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Camagüey, Cienfuegos traces its origins to 1903, when the original diocese was erected. Renamed the Diocese of Cienfuegos-Santa Clara in 1971, it was divided in 1995 into the Dioceses of Cienfuegos and Santa Clara.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle 37 N. 5602, entre 56 y 58, 55100 Cienfuegos, Cuba
- Telephone
- [043]51.30.19; fax 55.16.73
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].