Suffragan diocese Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela
Diocese of Acarigua-Araure
Acariguarauren(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 2002
- Catholics
- 485,000
- Priests
- 26
- Territory
- 5,510 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Gerardo Ernesto Salas Arjona
- Born
- 20 October 1966
- Birthplace
- Bailadores
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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.
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.