Archdiocese of Maracaibo
Archdiocese of Maracaibo | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Venezuela |
Diocesan bishop | José Luis Azuaje Ayala |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera FMI |
founding | 1897 |
surface | 12,319 km² |
Parishes | 67 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 ) |
Residents | 2,395,000 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 ) |
Catholics | 2,222,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
proportion of | 92.8% |
Diocesan priest | 94 (31.12.2014 / AP2016 ) |
Religious priest | 37 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
Catholics per priest | 16,962 |
Permanent deacons | 21 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
Friars | 47 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 ) |
Religious sisters | 204 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Spanish |
cathedral | Catedral de San Pedro y San Pablo |
Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Cabimas Diocese of El Vigía-San Carlos del Zulia |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo ( lat. : Archidioecesis Maracaibensis , span. : Archidiócesis de Maracaibo ) is in Venezuela situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Maracaibo . It covers the eastern part of the Venezuelan state of Zulia .
history
Pope Leo XII. founded the Diocese of Zulia on July 28, 1897 from cessions of territory from the Archdiocese of Mérida and it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela as a suffragan . On June 11, 1923, it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Mérida .
On January 2, 1953, it took the name of Maracaibo Diocese. It was raised to the rank of metropolitan archbishopric on April 30, 1966. In 1983 the Catholic University Universidad Católica Cecilio Acosta was founded in Maracaibo .
It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:
- May 26, 1943 to the Vicariate Apostolic Machiques ;
- July 23, 1965 to the Diocese of Barinas ;
- July 7, 1994 to the Diocese of El Vigía-San Carlos del Zulia .
Ordinaries
Bishops of Zulia
- Francisco Marvéz (October 21, 1897– December 17, 1904)
- Arturo Alvarez Celestino (August 16, 1910– December 18, 1919, then Coadjutor Bishop of Calabozo )
- Marcos Sergio Godoy (March 8, 1920– January 2, 1953)
Bishops of Maracaibo
- Marcos Sergio Godoy (January 2, 1953– October 21, 1957)
- José Rafael Pulido Méndez (June 21, 1958– January 16, 1961, then coadjutor archbishop of Mérida )
- Domingo Pérez Roa (January 16, 1961– April 30, 1966)
Archbishops of Maracaibo
- Domingo Pérez Roa (April 30, 1966– December 23, 1992)
- Ramón Pérez Ovidio Morales (December 23, 1992– June 5, 1999, then Archbishop ad personam of Los Teques )
- Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera FMI (November 11, 2000- May 24, 2018)
- José Luis Azuaje Ayala (since May 24, 2018)
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 | |||
1949 | 286,000 | 290,000 | 98.6 | 49 | 29 | 20th | 5,836 | 34 | 150 | 21st | |
1966 | 620,000 | 650,000 | 95.4 | 132 | 44 | 88 | 4,696 | 120 | 318 | 31 | |
1970 | 760,000 | 800,000 | 95.0 | 142 | 48 | 94 | 5,352 | 141 | 320 | 43 | |
1976 | 950,000 | 1,100,000 | 86.4 | 111 | 35 | 76 | 8,558 | 104 | 178 | 50 | |
1980 | 815,000 | 865,000 | 94.2 | 120 | 36 | 84 | 6,791 | 98 | 300 | 51 | |
1990 | 1,415,000 | 1,505,000 | 94.0 | 125 | 45 | 80 | 11,320 | 92 | 295 | 55 | |
1999 | 1,747,000 | 2,083,785 | 83.8 | 142 | 79 | 63 | 12.302 | 4th | 92 | 296 | 60 |
2000 | 1,785,000 | 2,100,000 | 85.0 | 130 | 69 | 61 | 13,730 | 4th | 91 | 300 | 60 |
2001 | 1,785,000 | 2,100,000 | 85.0 | 133 | 72 | 61 | 13,421 | 4th | 91 | 300 | 60 |
2002 | 1,785,000 | 2,100,000 | 85.0 | 136 | 75 | 61 | 13,125 | 4th | 91 | 300 | 60 |
2003 | 1,625,415 | 1,888,000 | 86.1 | 128 | 73 | 55 | 12,698 | 4th | 83 | 273 | 66 |
2004 | 1,863,690 | 2,006,757 | 92.9 | 121 | 71 | 50 | 15,402 | 7th | 71 | 275 | 65 |
See also
Web links
- Entry for Archdiocese of Maracaibo on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on Archdiocese of Maracaibo on gcatholic.org (English)