Suffragan diocese Barcelona, Venezuela
Diocese of Barcelona
Barcinonen(sis) in Venetiola
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese in Anzoategui state, Venezuela, with its see in the city of Barcelona. Erected 7 June 1954 by Pope Pius XII from the Diocese of Ciudad Bolivar; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cumana, and in 2018 the Diocese of El Tigre was split off from it. Its cathedral is the Catedral de San Cristobal in Barcelona.
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- Established
- 1954
- Catholics
- 1,785,000
- Priests
- 44
- Territory
- 43,000 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Jorge Anibal Quintero Chacon
- Born
- 24 July 1956
- Birthplace
- Queniquea
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The cathedral
Catedral de San Cristobal stands in Barcelona, 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
Located in the city of Barcelona within the ecclesiastical province of Cumaná, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Barcelona in Venezuela bears the Latin name Dioecesis Barcinonensis in Venetiola. On Thursday, 11 July 2014, the Vatican web site's online daily news bulletin recorded, among its resignations and appointments, that Pope Francis had named Bishop Jorge Anibal Quintero Chacón, until then Bishop of the Diocese of Margarita, as Bishop-designate of the Diocese of Barcelona.