Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas
Esmeralden(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Esmeraldas, Ecuador
The Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas is a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Latin Church on Ecuador's Pacific coast, erected on 14 December 1945 and exempt (directly subject to the Holy See). Its seat is the Catedral Cristo Rey in the city of Esmeraldas.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 November 1957
- Latin
- Esmeralden(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000404
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 493,000
- Population
- 542,000
- Catholic share
- 91.0%
- Priests
- 60
- Catholics per priest
- 8,217
- Extent
- 15,260 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 32
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Antonio Crameri, S.S.C.
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
Catedral Cristo Rey stands in Esmeraldas, 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.
History
A missionary pre-diocesan circumscription of the Roman Catholic Church, the Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Esmeraldensis) has its cathedral see, the Catedral Cristo Rey, in the town of Esmeraldas, in Ecuador's Pacific coastal province of the same name. It is exempt, meaning it answers directly to the Holy See and belongs to no ecclesiastical province.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Calle Sucre, 24 de Mayo y Manabi, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
- Telephone
- [06]2724.353; fax 2727.006
- [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].