Archdiocese of Valencia
Valentin(us) in Venetiola
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Valencia, Venezuela
Valencia en Venezuela is a metropolitan archdiocese in Carabobo State, founded as a diocese in 1922 and elevated to archdiocese in 1974, with suffragans Maracay, Puerto Cabello, and San Carlos. Its archbishop since 2024 is Jesús Andoni González de Zárate Salas. Note: this see is an archdiocese, not a diocese.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 October 1922
- Latin
- Valentin(us) in Venetiola
- Patron
- Our Lady of Help (Nuestra Señora del Socorro)
- Annuario code
- 001000066
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,650,000
- Population
- 1,850,000
- Catholic share
- 89.2%
- Extent
- 3,921 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 421
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
- Archbishop
- Jesús González de Zárate Salas
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 Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Socorro stands in Valencia, 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 Valencia en Venezuela
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of MaracayMaracay
- Diocese of Puerto CabelloPuerto Cabello
- Diocese of San Carlos de VenezuelaSan Carlos de Venezuela
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Valencia in Venezuela is the seat of a Latin Church archdiocese known in Latin as Archidioecesis Valentinus in Venetiola.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Arzobispado, Av. Urdaneta 100-54, Valencia 2001-A, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela
- [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].