Archdiocese of Mérida
| Archdiocese of Mérida | |
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| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Venezuela |
| Diocesan bishop | Baltazar Cardinal Porras |
| Auxiliary bishop | Luis Enrique Rojas Ruiz |
| Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | Luis Alfonso Marquez Molina CIM |
| founding | 1778 |
| surface | 8,109 km² |
| Parishes | 62 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Residents | 675,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Catholics | 575,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| proportion of | 85.2% |
| Diocesan priest | 99 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 33 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 4,356 |
| Permanent deacons | 3 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Friars | 54 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 204 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral Basílica Menor de la Inmaculada Concepción de Mérida |
| Website | www.arquidiocesisdemerida.org.ve |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Barinas Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela Diocese of Trujillo Diocese of Guasdualito |
The Archdiocese of Mérida ( Latin Archidioecesis Emeritensis in Venetiola , Spanish Archidiócesis de Mérida ) is an in Venezuela situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Mérida . It comprises 17 municipalities in the Venezuelan state of Mérida .
history
Pope Pius VI founded the diocese of Mérida on February 16, 1778 with the Apostolic Constitution Magnitudo Divinae Bonitatis as a diocese emeritensis in Indiis from territory of the archbishopric Santafé en Nueva Granada , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese. On March 29, 1785, the first bishop of the diocese, Juan Ramos de Lora, founded the diocesan seminary , which was consecrated on November 1, 1790.
On November 24, 1803 it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela, according to the bull In universalis Ecclesiae regimine . With the Bull Inter praecipuas on June 11, 1923 it was raised to the rank of Metropolitan Archbishopric .
It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:
- March 7, 1863 to the Diocese of Barquisimeto ;
- March 7, 1863 to the diocese of Calabozo ;
- July 28, 1897 to the diocese of Zulia ;
- October 12, 1922 to the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela ;
- June 4, 1957 to the Diocese of Trujillo ;
- July 23, 1965 to the Diocese of Barinas ;
- July 7, 1994 to the Diocese of El Vigía-San Carlos del Zulia .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Mérida
- Juan Manuel Antonio Ramos Lora OFM (September 23, 1782 to November 9, 1790)
- Cándido Manuel de Torrijos Riguerra OP (December 19, 1791 to November 20, 1794)
- Antonio Ramón de Espinosa y Lorenzo OP (December 18, 1795 to September 23, 1800)
- Santiago Hernández Milanés (July 20, 1801 to March 26, 1812)
- Rafael Lasso de la Vega (March 8, 1816 to December 15, 1828, then Bishop of Quito )
- José Arias Buenaventura Bergara (December 22, 1828 to November 21, 1831)
- José Vicente de Unda (July 11, 1836 to July 19, 1840)
- Juan Hilario Bosset (January 27, 1842–1873)
- Román Lovera (August 20, 1880-1892)
- Antonio Ramón Silva (May 21, 1894 to June 11, 1923)
Archbishops of Mérida
- Antonio Ramón Silva (June 11, 1923 to August 1, 1927)
- Acacio Chacón Guerra (August 1, 1927 to December 15, 1966)
- José Rafael Pulido Méndez (November 22, 1966 to August 30, 1972)
- Angel Pérez Cisneros (August 30, 1972 to August 20, 1979)
- Miguel Antonio Salas Salas CIM (August 20, 1979 to October 30, 1991)
- Baltazar Cardinal Porras (since October 30, 1991)
statistics
| year | population | priest | Permanent deacons |
Religious | Parishes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | male | Female | |||
| 1950 | 454,000 | 455,000 | 99.8 | 89 | 65 | 24 | 5.101 | 48 | 132 | 77 | |
| 1966 | 261.200 | 262,000 | 99.7 | 84 | 52 | 32 | 3,109 | 28 | 139 | 38 | |
| 1970 | 260,000 | 270,668 | 96.1 | 74 | 41 | 33 | 3,513 | 38 | 204 | 41 | |
| 1976 | 377,000 | 380,000 | 99.2 | 92 | 62 | 30th | 4,097 | 44 | 206 | 54 | |
| 1980 | 446,000 | 450,000 | 99.1 | 81 | 57 | 24 | 5,506 | 31 | 190 | 47 | |
| 1990 | 607,000 | 612,396 | 99.1 | 100 | 60 | 40 | 6,070 | 56 | 245 | 65 | |
| 1999 | 533.072 | 543,545 | 98.1 | 112 | 75 | 37 | 4,759 | 55 | 200 | 51 | |
| 2000 | 543,487 | 554.931 | 97.9 | 86 | 60 | 26th | 6.319 | 2 | 43 | 232 | 51 |
| 2001 | 547.349 | 564.277 | 97.0 | 114 | 78 | 36 | 4,801 | 2 | 54 | 232 | 52 |
| 2002 | 516,341 | 573.712 | 90.0 | 115 | 78 | 37 | 4,489 | 2 | 60 | 237 | 54 |
| 2003 | 530,798 | 589.775 | 90.0 | 125 | 86 | 39 | 4,246 | 2 | 69 | 240 | 61 |
| 2004 | 543.118 | 603.464 | 90.0 | 128 | 84 | 44 | 4,243 | 3 | 67 | 269 | 62 |
See also
Web links
- Entry on Archdiocese of Mérida on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry about the Archdiocese of Mérida on Giga-Catholic (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ Aloysio Gardellini (Ed.): Decreta authentica Congregationis sacrorum rituum , Vol. 7: Continuatio Appendicis complectitur decreta. From 1820 to 1826 . Bourlié, Rome 1826, p. 230 (sub no. 4466).