Archdiocese of Coro
| Archdiocese of Coro | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Venezuela |
| Diocesan bishop | Mariano José Parra Sandoval |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Roberto Lückert León |
| founding | 1922 |
| surface | 21,395 km² |
| Parishes | 42 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 670.013 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 535.100 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 79.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 56 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 3 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 9,069 |
| Permanent deacons | 9 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 9 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 32 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral Basílica de Santa Ana |
| Suffragan dioceses | Punto Fijo |
The Archdiocese of Coro ( lat. : Archidioecesis Corensis , span. : Archidiócesis de Coro ) is in Venezuela situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Coro . It covers part of the Venezuelan state of Falcón .
history
For the first time the diocese was founded on June 21, 1531 from cession of territory from the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo . On July 20, 1637, the cathedral chapter was transferred to Santiago de León de Caracas .
Pope Pius XI founded it on October 12, 1922 with the bull Ad munus from territorial cession of the diocese of Barquisimeto for the second time. It was also subordinated to the Archdiocese of Maracaibo as a suffragan diocese.
It lost part of its territory on July 12, 1997 in favor of the establishment of the diocese of Punto Fijo . With the Apostolic Constitution Usque omnium it was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan Archdiocese on November 23, 1998 .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Coro
- Lucas Guillermo Castillo Hernández (January 19, 1923– November 10, 1939, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Caracas )
- Francisco José Iturriza Guillén SDB (November 10, 1939– May 20, 1980, retired)
- Ramón Pérez Ovidio Morales (May 20, 1980– December 23, 1992, then Archbishop of Maracaibo)
Archbishops of Coro
- Roberto Lückert León (July 21, 1993– October 25, 2016)
- Mariano José Parra Sandoval (since October 25, 2016)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons |
Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
| 1949 | 268,000 | ? | ? | 27 | 13 | 14th | 9,925 | 16 | 38 | 72 | |
| 1966 | 366,000 | 369,700 | 99.0 | 58 | 37 | 21st | 6.310 | 36 | 75 | 34 | |
| 1970 | ? | 423.211 | ? | 52 | 26th | 26th | ? | 40 | 62 | 37 | |
| 1976 | 437.761 | 451,300 | 97.0 | 50 | 24 | 26th | 8,755 | 46 | 76 | 40 | |
| 1980 | 498,000 | 513,000 | 97.1 | 51 | 24 | 27 | 9,764 | 43 | 91 | 42 | |
| 1990 | 590,000 | 613,649 | 96.1 | 49 | 29 | 20th | 12,040 | 4th | 28 | 68 | 37 |
| 2000 | 433.198 | 462.176 | 93.7 | 35 | 28 | 7th | 12,377 | 4th | 7th | 44 | 28 |
| 2006 | 458,000 | 529,000 | 86.6 | 66 | 57 | 9 | 6,939 | 7th | 17th | 38 | 39 |
| 2013 | 516,000 | 600,000 | 86.0 | 63 | 56 | 7th | 8,190 | 6th | 20th | 42 | 40 |
See also
Web links
- Entry about the Archdiocese of Coro on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry on Archdiocese of Coro on gcatholic.org (English)