Apostolic Vicariate of Tucupita
Tucupiten(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Tucupita, Venezuela
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.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 July 1954
- Latin
- Tucupiten(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000466
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 104,000
- Population
- 136,000
- Catholic share
- 76.5%
- Extent
- 40,200 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.6
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Ernesto Jose Romero Rivas, OFMCap
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 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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Calle Centurión con Av. Arismendi, al lado de la Catedral, Tucupita 6401, T.F. Delta Amacuro, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0287]721.00.39
- [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].