Diocese of Maturín
Maturinen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Maturín, Venezuela
Latin rite diocese in Monagas state, eastern Venezuela, with its see at Maturin. Erected 24 May 1958 by Pope Pius XII from the Diocese of Ciudad Bolivar; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolivar. Its cathedral is the Catedral Nuestra Senora del Carmen in Maturin.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 May 1958
- Latin
- Maturinen(sis)
- Patron
- San Simón y San Judas
- Annuario code
- 001002189
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 610,000
- Population
- 700,000
- Catholic share
- 87.1%
- Priests
- 35
- Catholics per priest
- 17,429
- Extent
- 28,900 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
- Enrique Perez Lavado
- Born
- 19 April 1951
- Birthplace
- Maracaibo
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 del Carmen stands in Maturín, 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 Bolivar
A suffragan of Ciudad Bolivar.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Ciudad GuayanaCiudad Guayana
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Centered on the city of Maturín, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Maturinensis) sits within the Venezuelan ecclesiastical province of Ciudad Bolívar.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle Monagas 120, Maturín, Edo. Monagas, Venezuela
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].