Diocese of Barinas, Venezuela 🇻🇪 (original) (raw)

Celebrations

History

• 1965.07.23: Established as Diocese of Barinas / Barinen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mérida and Diocese of Calabozo and became suffragan of Mérida)
• 2015.12.03: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Guasdualito

Contact Info

Address: Calle Briceño Méndez, frente a la Plaza Bolívar, Apartado postal N°2, Barinas, Estado Barinas, Venezuela

Present Prelates

Ordinaries

Former Prelates

• Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Alejandro Figueroa Medina (1986.03.12 – 1995.02.21)
• Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop José Vicente Henriquez Andueza, S.D.B. (1980.06.26 – 1985)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 35,200 km²

Population: 792,000 Catholics (80.2% of 987,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 45 parishes

Personnel: 71 priests (56 diocesan, 15 religious), 15 deacons, 38 religious (16 brothers, 22 sisters), 48 seminarians