Roman Catholic Diocese of Valdivia

Diocese of Valdivia
Dioecesis Valdiviensis
Diócesis de Valdivia
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary
Location
Country Chile
Ecclesiastical province Concepción
Metropolitan Concepción
Statistics
Area 13,679 km2 (5,281 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2010)
297,000
237,000 (79.8%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Established 14 June 1910 (108 years ago)
Cathedral Catedral Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Patron saint Our Lady of the Rosary
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina
Metropolitan Archbishop Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib
Website
www.obispadodevaldivia.cl

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Valdivia (Latin: Valdivien(sis)) is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Concepción in Chile.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nuestra Señora del Rosario, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, in the city of Valdivia, Los Ríos.

History

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 145,500 Catholics (47.2% of 308,000 total) on 13,679 km² in 17 parishes with 27 priests (10 diocesan, 17 religious), 28 deacons, 60 lay religious (18 brothers, 42 sisters) and 2 seminarians

Ordinaries

(all Roman rite)

’’Ecclesiastical Superior(s?) of the independent mission
not available
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’’permanent Apostolic Administrators of Valdivia
  • Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis Augusto Klinke Leier (1910.06.19 – 1928.11.14)
  • Teodoro Eugenín Barrientos, Picpus Fathers (SS.CC. ) (1931.04.10 – 1942.06.20)
’’Suffragan Bishops of Valdivia
    • Coadjutor Bishop: Arturo Mery Beckdorf (later Archbishop) (1944.07.29 – 1955.04.20)
  • José Manuel Santos Ascarza, Teresian Carmelites (O.C.D. ) (1955.09.21 – 1983.05.03)
  • Alejandro Jiménez Lafeble (1983.12.12 – 1996.02.29)
  • Apostolic Administrator Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia (1995.04.29 – 1996.09.08)
  • Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, Salesians (S.D.B. ) (1996.06.28 – 2001.07.10)
  • Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina (2002.05.31 – 8 June 2017)
  • vacant

See also

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