Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral, Guasdualito
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral, 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 and Barinas state, in the municipality of Paez, in the Alto Apure Metropolitan district in western Apure state, in the plains region of Venezuela.History
The building began as a parish church. 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. 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.
