Suffragan diocese San Cristóbal de Venezuela, Venezuela
Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
Sancti Christophori in Venetiola
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese covering Tachira state in the Venezuelan Andes, with its see at San Cristobal. Erected 12 October 1922 by Pope Pius XI from the Diocese of Merida; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Merida. Its cathedral is the Catedral de San Cristobal.
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- Established
- 1922
- Catholics
- 1,250,000
- Priests
- 196
- Territory
- 11,000 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Lisandro Alirio Rivas Duran, I.M.C.
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The cathedral
Catedral de San Cristobal stands in San Cristóbal de Venezuela, 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.
History
The city of San Cristóbal is home to a Roman Catholic diocese known in Latin as Dioecesis Sancti Christophori in Venetiola, a suffragan see within the Venezuelan ecclesiastical province of Mérida.