Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar
| Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Venezuela |
| Diocesan bishop | Ulises Antonio Gutiérrez Reyes OdeM |
| founding | May 20, 1790 |
| surface | 109,769 km² |
| Parishes | 25 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Residents | 646,744 ( 12/31/2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics | 614,306 (December 31, 2016 / AP2017 ) |
| proportion of | 95% |
| Diocesan priest | 32 (December 31, 2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 8 (December 31, 2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 15,358 |
| Permanent deacons | 2 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Friars | 8 (December 31, 2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 53 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral de Sto. Tomás |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Ciudad Guayana Diocese of Maturín |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar ( Latin Archidioecesis Civitatis Bolivarensis , Spanish Archidiócesis de Ciudad Bolívar ) is an in Colombia situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in Ciudad Bolívar . It covers part of the Venezuelan state of Bolívar .
history
Pope Pius VII founded the diocese of Santo Tomás de Guayana on May 20, 1790 from cession of territory by the diocese of Puerto Rico and was subordinate to the archbishopric of Santo Domingo as a suffragan diocese. With the bull In universalis Ecclesiae regimine , it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Caracas on November 24, 1803 .
On January 2, 1953, it took the name, Diocese of Ciudad Bolívar. With the Apostolic Constitution Magna quidem it was raised to the rank of Metropolitan Archbishopric on June 21, 1958 .
It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following areas:
- February 23, 1818 to the Vicariate Apostolic of Trinidad ;
- March 4, 1922 to the Vicariate Apostolic Caroní ;
- February 5, 1932 to the Vicariate Apostolic of Puerto Ayacucho
- June 7, 1954 to the Diocese of Barcelona ;
- May 24, 1958 to the Maturín diocese ;
- August 20, 1979 to the Diocese of Ciudad Guayana .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Santo Tomás de Guayana
- Francisco de Ibarra y Herrera (December 19, 1791 - December 14, 1798, then Bishop of Caracas , Santiago de Venezuela)
- José Antonio García Mohedano (August 11, 1800 - October 17, 1804; died)
- José Cabello Bentura (1809–1817; died)
- Mariano Talavera y Garcés (December 15, 1828 - 1842; resigned)
- Mariano Fernández Fortique (July 12, 1841 - February 6, 1854; resigned)
- José Manuel Arroyo Niño (June 19, 1856 - November 30, 1884; died)
- Manuel Felipe Rodríguez Delgado (July 30, 1885 - December 13, 1887; died)
- Antonio María Durán (September 25, 1891 - July 18, 1917; died)
- Sixto Sosa Díaz (December 5, 1918 - June 16, 1923, then Bishop of Cumaná )
- Miguel Antonio Mejía (June 19, 1923 - October 8, 1947; died)
- Juan José Ortiz Bernal (October 21, 1949 - January 2, 1953)
Bishop of Ciudad Bolívar
- Juan José Bernal Ortiz (January 2, 1953 - June 21, 1958)
Archbishops of Ciudad Bolívar
- Juan José Ortiz Bernal (June 21, 1958 - July 25, 1965, then Archbishop ad personam of Los Teques )
- Crisanto Darío Mata Cova (April 30, 1966 - May 26, 1986; retired)
- Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero (May 26, 1986 - August 27, 2011)
- Ulises Antonio Gutiérrez Reyes OdeM (since August 27, 2011)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons |
Religious | Parishes | ||||||
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| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
| 1950 | 378,000 | 385,000 | 98.2 | 30th | 18th | 12 | 12,600 | 30th | |||
| 1966 | 235,800 | 263,000 | 89.7 | 43 | 22nd | 21st | 5,483 | 21st | 75 | 21st | |
| 1970 | 305,000 | 330,000 | 92.4 | 48 | 22nd | 26th | 6.354 | 28 | 96 | 27 | |
| 1976 | 373,000 | 406.665 | 91.7 | 51 | 23 | 28 | 7,313 | 37 | 108 | 34 | |
| 1980 | 243,000 | 269,762 | 90.1 | 31 | 18th | 13 | 7,838 | 3 | 14th | 51 | 27 |
| 1990 | 300,000 | 320,000 | 93.8 | 22nd | 14th | 8th | 13,636 | 9 | 70 | 16 | |
| 2000 | 460,750 | 475,000 | 97.0 | 29 | 18th | 11 | 15,887 | 11 | 70 | 23 | |
| 2006 | 547,000 | 570,000 | 96.0 | 32 | 19th | 13 | 17.093 | 2 | 13 | 53 | 25th |
| 2016 | 614.306 | 646.744 | 95.0 | 40 | 32 | 8th | 15,357 | 2 | 8th | 53 | 25th |
See also
Web links
- Entry for the Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar on gcatholic.org (English)