Diocese of San Fernando de Apure
Sancti Ferdinandi Apuren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela
Latin rite diocese in Apure state, Venezuela, with its see at San Fernando de Apure. Established 7 June 1954 as a territorial prelature from territories of Calabozo and San Cristobal de Venezuela, and promoted to a diocese on 12 November 1974; it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Calabozo. Its cathedral is the Catedral Nuestra Senora del Carmen.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 June 1954
- Latin
- Sancti Ferdinandi Apuren(sis)
- Patron
- San Fernando III; Nuestra Señora del Carmen
- Annuario code
- 001002892
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 352,750
- Population
- 415,000
- Catholic share
- 85.0%
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 13,065
- Extent
- 76,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.6
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
- Elieser Antonio Rivero Barrios
- Born
- 15 August 1975
- Birthplace
- Carora
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 San Fernando de Apure, 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 Calabozo
A suffragan of Calabozo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CalabozoCalabozo
- Diocese of Valle de la PascuaValle de la Pascua
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A suffragan Latin see in the Venezuelan ecclesiastical province of Calabozo, the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Fernando de Apure (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ferdinandi Apurensis) has its cathedral episcopal see in the city of San Fernando de Apure.
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].