Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral ( es, Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Carmen), also Guasdualito Cathedral, is a religious building belonging to the
Catholic Church in the city of
Guasdualito, Venezuela.
Location
The cathedral is located between Bolívar and Sucre Streets and Miranda Avenue. Guasdualito is near the border with
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
and
Barinas state, in the municipality of Paez, in the Alto Apure Metropolitan district in western
Apure state
Apure State ( es, Estado Apure, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. Its territory formed part of the provinces of Mérida, Maracaibo, and Barinas, in accordance with successive territorial ordinations pronounced by the colonial authori ...
, in the plains region of Venezuela.
History
The building began as a parish church ("Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel"). The bells were donated in 1940 while the cathedral clock was donated by the Italian Vicenzo Guarino in 1954. In February 1948 the cathedral was affected by a fire and had to be repaired. In 1988 the building underwent significant changes in its structure
The church acquired cathedral status in 2015 with the separation of the jurisdiction of the
Diocese of San Fernando de Apure (''Dioecesis Sancti Ferdinandi Apurensis''). Now a Roman or Latin rite cathedral, it functions as the headquarters of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Guasdualito which is a suffragan of the
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mérida and was created by decision of
Pope Francis on December 3, 2015.
See also
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List of cathedrals in Venezuela
This is the list of cathedrals in Venezuela.
Roman Catholic
Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in Venezuela:GCatholic.orgCathedrals in Venezuela/ref>
* Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Corteza in Acarigua
* Cathedral of St. Christop ...
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or Virgin of Carmel, is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order, particularly within the Catholic Church. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Ca ...
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Roman Catholicism in Venezuela
References
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Roman Catholic cathedrals in Venezuela
Guasdualito
Buildings and structures in Apure