Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela

This article deals with the Archdiocese of Venezuela, in Spain there is the Archdiocese of Valencia .

Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela
Basic data
Country	Venezuela
Diocesan bishop	Reinaldo del Prette Lissot
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus	José Joaquín Troconis Montiel
founding	1922
surface	3,921 km²
Parishes	67 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 )
Residents	2,283,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Catholics	2,040,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
proportion of	89.4%
Diocesan priest	74 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 )
Religious priest	59 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 )
Catholics per priest	15,338
Permanent deacons	2 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Friars	73 (December 31, 2014 / AP2016 )
Religious sisters	147 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2016 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Spanish
cathedral	Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Socorro
Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Maracay Diocese of Puerto Cabello Diocese of San Carlos de Venezuela

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela ( lat. : Archidioecesis Valentinus in Venetiola , span. : Archidiócesis de Valencia en Venezuela ) is an in Venezuela situated Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Valencia . It covers part of the Venezuelan state of Carabobo .

Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Socorro

history

Pope Pius XI founded the Diocese of Valencia en Venezuela on October 12, 1922 with the Apostolic Constitution Ad munus from cession of territory of the Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese. On November 12, 1974, it was raised to the rank of Metropolitan Archdiocese.

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

• October 7, 1966 to the Diocese of San Felipe ;
• May 16, 1972 to the Diocese of San Carlos de Venezuela ;
• July 5, 1994 to the diocese of Puerto Cabello .

Ordinaries

Bishops of Valencia en Venezuela

• Francisco Antonio Granadillo (June 22, 1923– January 13, 1927)
• Salvador Montes de Oca (June 20, 1927– December 22, 1934) († 1944), martyr
• Gregorio Adam Dalmau (August 29, 1937– July 12, 1961)
• José Alí Lebrún Moratinos (March 19, 1962– September 21, 1972, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela)
• Luis Eduardo Jiménez Henríquez (November 9, 1972– November 12, 1974)

Archbishops of Valencia en Venezuela

• Luis Eduardo Jiménez Henríquez (November 12, 1974– March 16, 1990)
• Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (March 16, 1990– September 19, 2005, then Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela)
• Reinaldo del Prette Lissot (since April 10, 2007)

statistics

year	population			priest				Permanent deacons	Religious		Parishes
	Catholics	Residents	%	Total number	Diocesan priest	Religious priest	Catholics per priest		male	Female
1950	?	?	?	103	40	63	?				34
1966	445.065	450,000	98.9	106	53	53	4,198		66	130	52
1970	590,000	593,399	99.4	106	49	57	5,566		67	186	54
1976	700,000	793.892	88.2	117	42	75	5,982	1	106	201	56
1980	1,000,000	1,060,000	94.3	109	39	70	9,174	1	104	203	57
1990	1,490,000	1,593,000	93.5	124	51	73	12,016	1	103	182	58
1999	1,615,000	1,900,000	85.0	121	54	67	13,347	1	92	149	53
2000	1,657,500	1,950,000	85.0	121	52	69	13,698	1	91	147	53
2001	1,767,510	2,079,424	85.0	108	51	57	16,365	1	85	157	53
2002	1,850,000	2,130,000	86.9	115	52	63	16,086	1	90	151	53
2003	1,610,000	1,800,000	89.4	117	54	63	13,760	1	80	171	54
2004	1,650,000	1,850,000	89.2	110	56	54	15,000	1	71	162	56

Footnotes

1. ↑ Baltazar Enrique Porras : De Monseñor Salvador Montes de Oca, a Fray Bernardo María, Mártir . El Centauro Ediciones, Caracas 1998, ISBN 980-07-5130-0 .

See also

• Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela

Web links

• Description on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
• Entry about the Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela on Giga-Catholic (English)

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