Archdiocese of Cumaná
Cumanen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Cumaná, Venezuela
Cumaná is a metropolitan archdiocese in northeastern Venezuela, founded as a diocese in 1922 and elevated to archdiocese in 1992, with suffragans Barcelona, Carúpano, El Tigre, and Margarita. Its archbishop since 2025 is Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín. Note: this see is an archdiocese, not a diocese.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 October 1922
- Latin
- Cumanen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001251
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 616,271
- Population
- 515,000
- Extent
- 6,152 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 100
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
- Ángel Francisco Caraballo Fermín
- Born
- 30 May 1965
- Birthplace
- Puerto Ordaz
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 Metropolitana del Corazón de Jesús stands in Cumaná, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Basílica Concatedral de Santa Inés.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Cumaná
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Cumaná, a city in Venezuela, is home to a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church that carries its name, the Archdiocese of Cumaná, or in Latin, Archidioecesis Cumanensis.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].