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Roman Catholic Diocese Of El Tigre
The Roman Catholic Diocese of El Tigre ( la, Dioecesis Tigrensis) is a diocese located in the city of El Tigre in the ecclesiastical province of Cumaná Cumaná () is the capital city of Venezuela's Sucre State. It is located east of Caracas. Cumaná was one of the first cities founded by Spain in the mainland Americas and is the oldest continuously-inhabited Hispanic-established city in South ... in Venezuela. The diocese covers an area of the some part of the Anzoátegui State. It's divided into 14 parishes, having 13 priests and 6 seminarians all together. History On May 31, 2018, Pope Francis established the Diocese of El Tigre, when it was split off from the Diocese of Barcelona in Venezuela. Ordinaries * José Manuel Romero Barrios (since 31 May 2018) See also * Roman Catholicism in Venezuela References External links Profile at the Catholic Hierarchy Roman Catholic dioceses in Venezuela Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Cumaná Christian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Cumaná
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cumaná ( la, Archidioecesis Cumanensis) is an archdiocese located in the city of Cumaná in Venezuela. History On 12 October 1922 Pope Pius XI established the Diocese of Cumaná from the Diocese of Santo Tomás de Guayana. Blessed John Paul II elevated the diocese to an archdiocese on 16 May 1992. Bishops Ordinaries *Sixto Sosa Díaz † (16 Jun 1923 – 29 May 1943) *Crisanto Darío Mata Cova † (21 Oct 1949 – 30 Apr 1966) Appointed, Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar *Mariano José Parra León † (30 Nov 1966 – 12 Mar 1987) *Alfredo José Rodríguez Figueroa † (12 Mar 1987 – 17 Sep 2001) * Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez (27 Mar 2002 – 24 May 2018) * Jesús González de Zárate Salas (24 May 2018 – present) Auxiliary bishops * Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco (1937-1939), appointed Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela *Pedro Pablo Tenreiro Francia (1939-1954), appointed Bishop of Guanare *Eduardo Herrera Riera (1965-1966), appointed B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Church
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José Manuel Romero Barrios
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the Roman diocese, diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek language, Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into Roman diocese, dioceses based on the Roman diocese, civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the Roman province, provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's State church of the Roman Empire, official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine the Great, Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Tigre
El Tigre () is a city of Venezuela located in the state Anzoátegui. It is the capital of Simón Rodríguez Municipality and it is located south in Anzoategui state, equidistant from the Orinoco River and the Caribbean Sea in the Guanipa Mesa at 295 m altitude, crossed by the Tigre River; with an average temperature of 79 °F and an annual average rainfall of 1,200 mm. One nearby tourist destination is the Chimire, Venezuela, Chimire Cliffs. El Tigre also is in full conurbation with the city of San Jose de Guanipa also known as El Tigrito, capital of the Guanipa Municipality whose population according to data from the CNE is ''84,526 '' inhabitants. Both cities are basically one, whose population would be ''291,472 '' inhabitants. Since the appointment of Orinoco Belt as one of the largest reserves of oil in the world, El Tigre has become one of the most important cities in Venezuela because it is very near or on the edge of this oil belt in Anzoategui state. Thus, El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecclesiastical Province
An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United States, areas of jurisdiction apply to local, state, and federal levels. Jur ... in Christianity, Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of several diocese, dioceses (or eparchy, eparchies), one of them being the archdiocese (or archeparchy), headed by a metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all other bishops of the province. In the Greco-Roman world, ''ecclesia'' ( grc, ἐκκλησία; la, ecclesia) was used to refer to a lawful assembly, or a called legislative body. As early as Pythagoras, the word took on the additional meaning of a community with shared beliefs. This is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anzoátegui
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Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. Francis is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the 8th century. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe illness, he was inspired to join the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1958. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Barcelona In Venezuela
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Barcelona in Venezuela ( la, Dioecesis Barcinonensis in Venetiola) is located in the city of Barcelona in the ecclesiastical province of Cumaná in Venezuela. On Thursday, 11 July 2014, the Vatican web site's online daily news bulletin, in the listing of resignations and appointments, stated that Pope Francis had appointed Bishop Jorge Anibal Quintero Chacón, who had been serving as the Bishop of the Diocese of Margarita, as the Bishop-designate of the Diocese of Barcelona. History On 7 June 1954 Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of Barcelona from the Diocese of Ciudad Bolívar. On 31 May 2018 from this Diocese was split off the Diocese of El Tigre by Pope Francis. Bishops Ordinaries *José Humberto Paparoni † (4 Oct 1954 - 1 Oct 1959) *Angel Pérez Cisneros † (23 May 1960 - 18 Jun 1969) Appointed, Coadjutor Archbishop of Mérida *Constantino Maradei Donato † (18 Nov 1969 - 16 Nov 1991) *Miguel Delgado Avila, S.D.B. † (16 Nov 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholicism In Venezuela
The Catholic Church in Venezuela is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela comprises nine archdioceses, three vicariates, a military ordinariate, and two Eastern Rite exarchates under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the Curia in Rome and the Venezuelan Bishops Conference. According to ''The World Factbook'', 2009, 96% of the population is Roman Catholic. In 2018, Latinobarómetro, estimated that 66% of the population is Roman Catholic. Since the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela has been weakened by a lack of diocesan and religious vocations. Many priests serving in Venezuela are foreign-born. Before president Hugo Chávez's government took power, Protestant churches began to successfully proselytize, especially among the urban poor. However, this has diminished in recent years. In the past, the Catholic Church did not have the funds, the personnel, or t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Dioceses In Venezuela
The diocesan system of the Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela, united in the episcopal conference, comprises : * nine Latin ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan (who has an archdiocese), including a total of 23 suffragandioceses each headed by a bishop. * four exempt Latin jurisdictions : the military ordinariate and three pre-diocesan apostolic vicariates. * two Eastern Catholic exempt apostolic exarchates for rite-specific particular churches ''sui iuris'' Current Dioceses Exempt Latin ''Sui iuris'' Jurisdictions * Military Ordinariate of Venezuela, for the armed forces * pre-diocesan missionary circumscriptions: ** Vicariate Apostolic of Caroní ** Vicariate Apostolic of Puerto Ayacucho ** Vicariate Apostolic of Tucupita Latin ecclesiastical provinces Ecclesiastical province of Barquisimeto * Metropolitan Archdiocese of Barquisimeto ** Diocese of Acarigua–Araure ** Diocese of Carora ** Diocese of Guanare ** Diocese of San Felipe Ecclesiast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province Of Cumaná
As of October 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions ''sui juris'' around the world. In addition to these jurisdictions, there are 2,100 titular sees (bishoprics, archbishoprics and metropolitanates). This is a structural list to show the relationships of each diocese to one another, grouped by ecclesiastical province, within each episcopal conference, within each continent or other geographical area. The list needs regular updating and is incomplete, but as articles are written, more will be added, and various aspects need to be regularly updated. Map Types of Catholic dioceses This refers to Catholic dioceses in the world, of all (Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
