Apostolic Vicariate of Galápagos
Galapagen(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Galápagos, Ecuador
Latin rite missionary apostolic vicariate covering the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. Established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Galapagos on 6 May 1950 and elevated to an apostolic vicariate by Pope Benedict XVI on 15 July 2008. Its seat is the Catedral La Inmaculada in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristobal Island, and Vicar Apostolic Aureo Patricio Bonilla Bonilla, O.F.M. has led it since 2013.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 July 2008
- Latin
- Galapagen(sis)
- Patron
- Inmaculada Concepción
- Annuario code
- 001000406
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 17,000
- Population
- 22,500
- Catholic share
- 75.6%
- Priests
- 12
- Catholics per priest
- 1,417
- Extent
- 8,010 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.1
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
- Aureo Patricio Bonilla Bonilla, O.F.M.
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 La Inmaculada, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno stands in Galápagos, 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
On the Galápagos Islands off Ecuador's Pacific coast, coinciding with the insular province of the same name, the Roman Catholic Church maintains a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction, the Apostolic Vicariate of Galápagos (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Galapagensis). Its cathedral, the Marian Catedral La Inmaculada dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, stands in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristóbal Island. Exempt from any ecclesiastical province and directly subject to the Holy See, the vicariate comprises ten parishes serving both locals and visitors to the World Heritage Site natural reserve.
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].