Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar
Civitatis Bolivaren(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
Ciudad Bolívar is a metropolitan archdiocese in eastern Venezuela, erected as a diocese in 1790 and elevated to archdiocese in 1958, with suffragans Ciudad Guayana and Maturín. Its archbishop since 2011 is Ulises Antonio Gutiérrez Reyes, O. de M. Note: this see is an archdiocese, not a diocese.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1790
- Latin
- Civitatis Bolivaren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001161
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 547,000
- Population
- 570,000
- Catholic share
- 96.0%
- Extent
- 109,769 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.0
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
- Archbishop
- Ulises Antonio Gutiérrez Reyes
- Born
- 29 April 1951
- Birthplace
- Pedregal
- Institute
- MERCEDARI
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 Santo Tomás stands in Ciudad Bolívar, 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 Ciudad Bolívar
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Established on 20 May 1790 as part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Caracas, the see of Ciudad Bolívar (Latin: Civitatis Bolivaren(sis)) is a Latin Church jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in the Venezuelan city of the same name. On 21 June 1958 the diocese was raised to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Arzobispado, Apartado 43, Avda. Andrés Eloy Blanco con Avda. Naiguatá, Ciudad Bolívar 8001, Edo. Bolívar, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0285]654.49.60
- [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].