Diocese of Guarenas
Guarenen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Guarenas, Venezuela
Latin rite diocese in Miranda state, Venezuela, with its see at Guarenas east of Caracas. Erected 30 November 1996 by Pope John Paul II from the Diocese of Los Teques; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Caracas. Its cathedral is the Catedral Nuestra Senora de Copacabana.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 November 1996
- Latin
- Guarenen(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora de Copacabana
- Annuario code
- 001001543
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 523,857
- Population
- 550,895
- Catholic share
- 95.1%
- Priests
- 21
- Catholics per priest
- 24,946
- Extent
- 5,186 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 101
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
- Tulio Luis Ramirez Padilla
- Born
- 28 February 1960
- Birthplace
- Caracas
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 Nuestra Senora de Copacabana stands in Guarenas, 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 Caracas
A suffragan of Caracas.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CaracasCaracas
- Diocese of La GuairaLa Guaira
- Diocese of Los TequesLos Teques
- Diocese of PetarePetare
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Guarenas, within the ecclesiastical province of Caracas in Venezuela, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarenas (Latin: Guarenen(sis)).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Calle Comercio 06-02, Guarenas 1220, Edo. Miranda, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0212]362.45.64
- [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].