Apostolic vicariate Tucupita, Venezuela
Apostolic Vicariate of Tucupita
Tucupiten(sis)
Latin Church
The Apostolic Vicariate of Tucupita is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction in Venezuela's Atlantic-coastal Delta Amacuro state, erected on 30 July 1954 by Pope Pius XII from territory of the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroni. Exempt and immediately subject to the Holy See, its seat is the Catedral de la Divina Pastora in Tucupita.
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- Established
- 1954
- Catholics
- 104,000
- Priests
- 10
- Territory
- 40,200 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Vicar Apostolic
- Ernesto Jose Romero Rivas, OFMCap
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The cathedral
Catedral de la Divina Pastora stands in Tucupita, 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
A missionary circonscription of the Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela, the Apostolic Vicariate of Tucupita (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Tucupitensis) is exempt, depending directly on the Holy See rather than belonging to any ecclesiastical province. Its cathedral see stands in Tucupita, the capital city of the Atlantic-coastal Delta Amacuro state.