Apostolic Vicariate of Méndez
Mendezen(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Méndez, Ecuador
Latin-rite apostolic vicariate in Ecuador's Morona-Santiago Amazon province, established on 17 February 1893 from the Vicariate Apostolic of Napo and entrusted to the Salesians. It is exempt, directly subject to the Holy See, with its cathedral, the Catedral Purisima de Macas, in the city of Macas. Bishop Nestor Montesdeoca Becerra, S.D.B., has been vicar apostolic since April 2008.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 April 1951
- Latin
- Mendezen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000426
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 111,000
- Population
- 126,000
- Catholic share
- 88.1%
- Priests
- 46
- Catholics per priest
- 2,413
- Extent
- 25,690 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.3
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
- Nestor Montesdeoca Becerra, S.D.B.
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 Purisima de Macas stands in Méndez, 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 circumscription of the Roman Catholic Church, the Apostolic Vicariate of Méndez (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Mendezensis) keeps its cathedral see, the Catedral Purísima de Macas, in the city of Macas in Ecuador's Morona-Santiago province. It is exempt, directly subject to the Holy See rather than belonging to any ecclesiastical province.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Curia Vicarial, Calle 10 de Agosto s/n, Don Bosco, Macas [Morona-Santiago], Ecuador
- Telephone
- [07]2700.356
- [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].