Apostolic vicariate Caroní, Venezuela
Apostolic Vicariate of Caroní
Caronen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite apostolic vicariate in the south of Bolivar state, Venezuela, with its see at Santa Elena de Uairen near the Brazilian border. Established 4 March 1922 by Pope Pius XI; it lost territory in 1954 when the Apostolic Vicariate of Tucupita was erected. Its cathedral is the Catedral de Santa Elena.
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- Established
- 1922
- Catholics
- 41,550
- Priests
- 9
- Territory
- 80,309 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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Gonzalo Alfredo Ontiveros Vivas
- Born
- 5 December 1968
- Birthplace
- El Valle Capacho
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The cathedral
Catedral de Santa Elena stands in Caroní, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
A missionary jurisdiction of the Latin Church in Venezuela, the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroní (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Caronensis) is immediately exempt to the Holy See and belongs to no ecclesiastical province. Its cathedral, the Catedral de Santa Elena, stands in the episcopal see of Santa Elena de Uairén, in the landlocked Bolívar state.