Archdiocese of Cumaná

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Archdiocese of Cumaná
Map of the Archdiocese of Cumaná
Basic data
Country Venezuela
Diocesan bishop Jesús González de Zárate Salas
Emeritus diocesan bishop Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez
founding 1922
surface 5,972 km²
Parishes 23 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Residents 770,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Catholics 605,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
proportion of 78.6%
Diocesan priest 20 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Religious priest 4 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Catholics per priest 25.208
Friars 11 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Religious sisters 42 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Catedral Metropolitana Sagrado Corazon Eucaristico de Jesus
Website https://arquidiocesisdecumana.es.tl/
Suffragan dioceses Barcelona
Carúpano
Margarita
El Tigre

The Archdiocese of Cumana ( lat. : Archidioecesis Cumanensis , span. : Archidiócesis de Cumaná ) is in Venezuela situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Cumana . It covers part of the Venezuelan state of Sucre .

Cumaná Cathedral

history

Pope Pius XI founded it on October 12, 1922 with the bull Ad munus from cession of territory of the diocese Ciudad Bolívar and was subordinate to the archdiocese of Caracas as a suffragan diocese. On June 21, 1958, it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Ciudad Bolívar .

With the Apostolic Constitution Necessitate adducti it was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan Archbishopric on May 16, 1992 .

It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:

Ordinaries

Bishops of Cumaná

Archbishops of Cumaná

statistics

year population priest Permanent
deacons
Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number Diocesan priest Religious priest Catholics per priest male Female
1949 ? 380,000 ? 29 15th 14th ? 12 35 21st
1966 525,000 535,900 98.0 53 38 15th 9,905 16 91 35
1970 475,447 484,447 98.1 48 27 21st 9,905 22nd 60 31
1976 500,782 510.607 98.1 46 26th 20th 10,886 21st 70 35
1980 569,600 583,000 97.7 51 35 16 11,168 17th 69 39
1990 646,000 694,000 93.1 46 34 12 14,043 13 70 55
1999 781.276 822.396 95.0 55 37 18th 14.205 19th 77 43
2000 306,500 319.208 96.0 36 28 8th 8,513 9 59 23
2001 480,000 505.864 94.9 35 24 11 13,714 12 41 24
2003 540,000 600.012 90.0 35 25th 10 15,428 12 45 24
2004 612.055 680.075 90.0 33 23 10 18,547 11 45 23
2006 489,000 515,000 95.0 28 19th 9 17,464 10 47 24

See also

Web links

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