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The Basilica of St. Anne [1] (Papiamento: Basilika Santa Ana; Dutch: Basiliek Santa Ana) It is a religious building that functions as Catholic Minor Basilica and at the same time as co-cathedral of the Diocese of Willemstad [2] (Latin: Dioecesis Gulielmopolitana) on the island of Curaçao [3] [4] in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela.
The Diocese of Willemstad was erected in 1752 as the Prefecture Apostolic of Curaçao. It was elevated to an apostolic vicariate on 20 September 1842 and to the Diocese of Willemstad on 28 April 1958. The language spoken in many of the Catholic churches here is Papiamento and English. The diocese has maintained a website in this language and in ...
Basilica of St. Anne in Willemstad, Curaçao. The Catholic Church in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Nearly 80% of the population is Catholic and the whole area is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Willemstad.
The Basilica of St. Anne was built as the first Roman Catholic church on the island. [8] The district saw a rapid population increase up in the early 19th century when the once walled city of Willemstad became overpopulated.
Willemstad (/ ˈ w ɪ l ə m s t ɑː t, ˈ v ɪ l-/ WIL-əm-staht, VIL-, Dutch: [ˈʋɪləmstɑt] ⓘ, Papiamento: [wiləmˈstad]; lit. ' William Town ' ) is the capital and largest city of Curaçao , an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands .
Basilica of St. Anne in Willemstad, Curaçao. Curaçao is mostly Catholic, with 72.8% of Curaçao's population being members of the Catholic church. [1]The entire island falls within the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Willemstad, which also extends to Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten.
Basilica of St. Anne, Willemstad; Q. Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral, Willemstad This page was last edited on 27 April 2019, at 17:25 (UTC). Text is available ...
Founded in 1752, Otrabanda's Basilica Santa Ana was elevated to basilica and co-cathedral status by Pope Paul VI in 1975. The basilica also served as a pro-cathedral between 1843 and 1958. This is a photo of a monument in the Dutch Caribbean on the island Curaçao identified by the ID