Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro
Buccae Taurinae
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Bocas del Toro, Panama
Latin rite territorial prelature covering Panama's western Atlantic province of Bocas del Toro, erected 17 October 1962 from the Diocese of David. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Panama; its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Bocas Town on Isla Colon.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 October 1962
- Latin
- Buccae Taurinae
- Patron
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Annuario code
- 001000254
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 62,000
- Population
- 124,000
- Catholic share
- 50.0%
- Priests
- 14
- Catholics per priest
- 4,429
- Extent
- 16,671 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.7
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
- Anibal Saldana Santamaria, O.A.R.
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
Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel stands in Bocas del Toro, 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 Panama
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Panama.
The sees of this province:
- Apostolic Vicariate of DariénDarién
- Archdiocese of PanamáPanamá
- Diocese of ChitréChitré
- Diocese of Colón-Kuna YalaColón-Kuna Yala
- Diocese of PenonoméPenonomé
- Diocese of Santiago de VeraguasSantiago de Veraguas
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Suffragan to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Panamá, the Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Bocas del Toro (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Buccae Taurinae) is a Latin ecclesiastical circumscription. Its cathedral, Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen, dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, stands in Bocas del Toro on Isla Colón, in the western, Atlantic Bocas del Toro province of Panama.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Calle 9na, Isla Colón, Bocas del Toro, Panamá
- Telephone
- 6945-2401
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].