Roman Catholic Diocese of Valparaíso
Diocese of Valparaíso Dioecesis Vallis Paradisi Diócesis de Valparaíso | |
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Cathedral of St. James | |
Location | |
Country | Chile |
Ecclesiastical province | Santiago de Chile |
Metropolitan | Santiago de Chile |
Statistics | |
Area | 4,600 km2 (1,800 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2010) 1,259,000 932,000 (74%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | 2 November 1872 (145 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of St James in Valparaíso |
Patron saint | Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Ricardo Ezzati Andrello |
Auxiliary Bishops | Santiago Silva Retamales |
Apostolic Administrator | Pedro Mario Ossandón Buljevic |
Emeritus Bishops | Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar |
Website | |
www.obispadodevalparaiso.cl |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Valparaíso (Latin: Vallis Paradisi) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Chile in central Chile.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Minor World Heritage Site : Catedral de Santiago, dedicated to the Apostle St. James the Elder (Spanish: Santiago), in the city of Valparaíso, Valparaíso Province.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 966,000 Catholics (74.1% of 1,304,000 total) on 4,763 km² in 69 parishes and 260 missions with 171 priests (86 diocesan, 85 religious), 71 deacons, 406 lay religious (133 brothers, 273 sisters) and 16 seminarians.
History
- Established on November 2, 1872 as Mission “sui iuris” of Valparaíso on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile
- Promoted on October 18, 1925 to Diocese of Valparaíso
- Lost territory in 1981 to the Diocese of San Felipe
- Gained territory in 2001 from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Araucanía (now Diocese of Villarrica).
Ordinaries
Bishops of Valparaíso
- Eduardo Gimpert Paut (1925-1937)
- Rafael Lira Infante, (1938-1958)
- Raúl Silva Henríquez, O.S.B. (1959-1961), appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (created a Cardinal in 1962)
- Emilio Tagle Covarrubias (1961-1983)
- Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos (1983-1993)
- Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez (1993-1996), appointed Pro-Prefect, and later Prefect, of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (elevated to Cardinal in 1998)
- Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, I.Sch. (1996-1998), appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (elevated to Cardinal in 2001)
- Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar, SS.CC. (1998-2018)
See also
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