Diocese of Barcelona
Barcinonen(sis) in Venetiola
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Barcelona, Venezuela
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 June 1954
- Latin
- Barcinonen(sis) in Venetiola
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
- Annuario code
- 001000828
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,785,000
- Population
- 1,909,000
- Catholic share
- 93.5%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 40,568
- Extent
- 43,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 42
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
- Jorge Anibal Quintero Chacon
- Born
- 24 July 1956
- Birthplace
- Queniquea
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 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.
The province of Cumana
A suffragan of Cumana.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CarúpanoCarúpano
- Diocese of El TigreEl Tigre
- Diocese of MargaritaMargarita
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Avda. Country Club con c/San Carlos, Urb. Urdaneta, Barcelona 6001-A, Edo. Anzoátegui, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0281]2764.993
- [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].