Diocese of Acarigua-Araure
Acariguarauren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela
Latin rite diocese in Portuguesa state, Venezuela, with its see at Acarigua. Erected 27 December 2002 by Pope John Paul II from territory split off from the Diocese of Guanare; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto. Its cathedral is the Catedral de Nuestra Senora de la Corteza in Acarigua.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 December 2002
- Latin
- Acariguarauren(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora de la Corteza
- Annuario code
- 001000592
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 485,000
- Population
- 550,000
- Catholic share
- 88.2%
- Priests
- 26
- Catholics per priest
- 18,654
- Extent
- 5,510 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 88
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
- Gerardo Ernesto Salas Arjona
- Born
- 20 October 1966
- Birthplace
- Bailadores
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 de Nuestra Senora de la Corteza stands in Acarigua-Araure, 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 Barquisimeto
A suffragan of Barquisimeto.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BarquisimetoBarquisimeto
- Diocese of CaroraCarora
- Diocese of GuanareGuanare
- Diocese of San FelipeSan Felipe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In the city of Acarigua stands the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Corteza, cathedral and episcopal see of the Diocese of Acarigua-Araure (Latin: Acariguaruen(sis)), a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church. It serves as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of Barquisimeto in Venezuela.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Avenida 38 con Calle 26 y 27, Barrio Paraguay, Acarigua 3101, Edo. Portuguesa, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0412]481.24.36
- [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].