Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa
Guantanamen(sis)- Baracoën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Guantánamo-Baracoa, Cuba
The Diocese of Guantanamo-Baracoa is a Latin rite diocese covering Guantanamo province in eastern Cuba, suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba. It was erected on 24 January 1998 from the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba. Its seat is the St. Catherine of Ricci Cathedral in Guantanamo; Baracoa was the site of Cuba's first see (1516).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 January 1998
- Latin
- Guantanamen(sis)- Baracoën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001538
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 203,300
- Population
- 511,156
- Catholic share
- 39.8%
- Priests
- 13
- Catholics per priest
- 15,638
- Extent
- 6,565 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 31
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
- Silvano Herminio Pedroso Montalvo
- Born
- 25 April 1953
- Birthplace
- Cárdenas
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
St. Catherine of Ricci Cathedral stands in Guantánamo-Baracoa, 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 Santiago de Cuba
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Santiago de CubaSantiago de Cuba
- Diocese of Bayamo y ManzanilloBayamo y Manzanillo
- Diocese of HolguínHolguín
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Taking in the municipality of Baracoa and the surrounding Guantánamo Province in Cuba, the Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa is a particular church of the Latin Church. Pope John Paul II's era saw it erected on 24 January 1998 out of territory of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, of which it remains a suffragan.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Paseo N. 812, entre San Gregorio y Cuartel, Guantánamo 95100, Cuba
- Telephone
- [021]32.35.04/5/6; fax 35.52.28
- [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].