Diocese of Petare
Petaren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Petare, Venezuela
The Diocese of Petare is a Latin Church diocese in the Sucre municipality of Miranda State, Venezuela, erected in 2021 from the Archdiocese of Caracas, to which it is suffragan. Its first and current bishop is Juan Carlos Bravo Salazar.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 November 2021
- Latin
- Petaren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001005106
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 760,000
- Population
- 760,000
- Catholic share
- 100.0%
- Extent
- 177 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4,294
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
- Juan Carlos Bravo Salazar
- Born
- 3 January 1965
- Birthplace
- El Pilar
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 Nuestra Señora del Rosario stands in Petare, 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 Archdiocese of Caracas.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CaracasCaracas
- Diocese of GuarenasGuarenas
- Diocese of La GuairaLa Guaira
- Diocese of Los TequesLos Teques
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Petare, within the ecclesiastical province of Caracas, gives its name to a Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Petarensis) whose territory corresponds to the civil department of the municipality of Sucre, Miranda. It was formed from five civil parishes that had until then belonged to the metropolitan archdiocese of Caracas. As of 2021 the diocese comprised 23 parishes, served by 57 priests, with 5 seminarians in formation.
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].