Diocese of Carora
Caroren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Carora, Venezuela
Latin rite diocese in Lara state, Venezuela, with its see at Carora. Erected 25 July 1992 with territory split from the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto, of which it is a suffragan. Its cathedral is St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Carora.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 July 1992
- Latin
- Caroren(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá de Aregue
- Annuario code
- 001001062
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 251,221
- Population
- 265,712
- Catholic share
- 94.5%
- Priests
- 29
- Catholics per priest
- 8,663
- Extent
- 11,708 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 21
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
- Carlos Enrique Curiel Herrera
- Born
- 4 July 1960
- Birthplace
- Carora
- Institute
- CHIERICI REGOLARI POVERI DELLA MADRE DI DIO DELLE SCUOLE PIE (SCOLOPI, PIARISTI)
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
St. John the Baptist Cathedral stands in Carora, 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 Acarigua-AraureAcarigua-Araure
- Diocese of GuanareGuanare
- Diocese of San FelipeSan Felipe
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
On July 25, 1992, territory split from the Archdiocese of Barquisimeto became the Diocese of Carora (Latin: Caroren(sis)), a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church seated in the city of Carora, within the ecclesiastical province of Barquisimeto in Venezuela.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle Lara 3-12, Carora 3040, Edo. Lara, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0252]421.62.67
- [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].