Diocese of Maracay
Maracayen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Maracay, Venezuela
Latin rite diocese in Aragua state, Venezuela, with its see at Maracay. Erected 21 June 1958 from the Diocese of Calabozo and the Archdiocese of Caracas; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela. Its cathedral is the Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral in Maracay.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 June 1958
- Latin
- Maracayen(sis)
- Patron
- San José
- Annuario code
- 001002155
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,382,083
- Population
- 1,588,749
- Catholic share
- 87.0%
- Priests
- 92
- Catholics per priest
- 15,023
- Extent
- 7,014 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 197
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
- Enrique Jose Parravano Marino
- Born
- 8 November 1955
- Birthplace
- Turmero
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ SALESIANA DI S. GIOVANNI BOSCO (SALESIANI)
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
Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral stands in Maracay, 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 Valencia en Venezuela
A suffragan of Valencia en Venezuela.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Puerto CabelloPuerto Cabello
- Diocese of San Carlos de VenezuelaSan Carlos de Venezuela
- Archdiocese of ValenciaValencia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Maracay, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Maracayensis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Valencia en Venezuela.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Av. Rotaria c/c Av. Las Delicias, Urb. Cantarana, Maracay, Edo. Aragua, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0243]241.70.65; fax 242.85.50
- [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].