Apostolic Vicariate of El Petén
de El Petén
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · El Petén, Guatemala
The Apostolic Vicariate of El Peten is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction covering the 36,000 km2 department of Peten in northern Guatemala. Bishop Mario Fiandri, S.D.B., titular bishop of Madarsuma, has served as vicar apostolic since 10 February 2009.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 February 1984
- Latin
- de El Petén
- Annuario code
- 001000403
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 560,000
- Population
- 753,000
- Catholic share
- 74.4%
- Priests
- 30
- Catholics per priest
- 18,667
- Extent
- 36,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 16
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
- Mario Fiandri, 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 Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios y San Pablo Itzá stands in El Petén, 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
Covering Petén Department in Guatemala, the Vicariate Apostolic of El Petén (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus de El Petén) is a Latin Church apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church. Its cathedral, the Catedral Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios y San Pablo Itzá, stands in the see of Flores, Guatemala.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Casa San Pablo, 17001 Ciudad Flores, Petén, Guatemala
- Telephone
- 7867-5281; 4989-6646
- [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].