Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciego de Ávila

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciego de Avila is a suffragan Latin diocese of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Camagüey, in Cuba.

Diocese of Ciego de Avila Dioecesis Caeci Abulensis
Location
Country	Cuba
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Camagüey
Metropolitan	Ciego de Avila
Statistics
Area	7,887 km2 (3,045 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 452,100 186,900 (41.3%)
Parishes	4
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	10 December 1912 (112 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral de San Eugenio de la Palma
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishops emeritus	Mario Eusebio Mestril Vega

Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Eugene's Cathedral, Ciego de Ávila.

History

• Established on 1996.02.02 as Diocese of Ciego de Ávila / Cæci Abulen(sis) (Latin), on Cuban territory split off from the then Diocese of Camagüey, now its Metropolitan.

Statistics

As per 2015, it served 190,343 Catholics (40.9% of 465,628 total) on 7,887 km² in 5 parishes and 36 missions with 8 priests (6 diocesan, 2 religious), 2 deacons, 18 lay religious (2 brothers, 16 sisters) and 1 seminarian .

Episcopal ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Ciego de Ávila

• Mario Eusebio Mestril Vega (2 February 1996 - retired 2017.07.08), previously Titular Bishop of Cediæ (16 November 1991 – 2 February 1996) as Auxiliary Bishop of Camagüey (Cuba)
• Bishop-elect Juan Gabriel Diaz Ruiz (8 July 2017 – ...), no previous prelature.

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Cuba

Sources and external links

• GCatholic, with Google satellite photo - data for all sections
• "Diocese of Ciego de Avila". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-02-12.