Diocese of Punto Fijo
Punctifixen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Punto Fijo, Venezuela
Latin rite diocese on the Paraguana peninsula of Falcon state, western Venezuela, with its see at Punto Fijo. Erected 12 July 1997 by Pope John Paul II from the Diocese of Coro; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Coro. Its cathedral is the Catedral Nuestra Senora de Coromoto.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 July 1997
- Latin
- Punctifixen(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora de Coromoto
- Annuario code
- 001002686
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 252,954
- Population
- 267,700
- Catholic share
- 94.5%
- Priests
- 30
- Catholics per priest
- 8,432
- Extent
- 3,405 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 74
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
- Luis Enrique Rojas Ruiz
- Born
- 31 August 1968
- Birthplace
- Mérida
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 Coromoto stands in Punto Fijo, 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 Coro
A suffragan of Coro.
The sees of this province:
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In western Venezuela, the city of Punto Fijo hosts a Roman Catholic diocese bearing the Latin name Dioecesis Punctifixensis, a member of the ecclesiastical province of Coro.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle Sucre, Plaza José Leonardo Chirinos, Punto Fijo, Edo. Falcón, Venezuela
- Telephone
- e fax [0269]247.68.70
- [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].