Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama
| Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country |
 Chile
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| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Antofagasta |
| Diocesan bishop | Óscar Hernán Blanco Martínez |
| founding | 1965 |
| surface | 43,000 km² |
| Parishes | 11 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Residents | 191,000 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics | 136.161 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| proportion of | 71.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 13 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 4 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 8.009 |
| Permanent deacons | 11 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Friars | 4 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 52 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral San Juan Bautista |
| address | Casilla 12-D Pasaje Better 1664 Calama, Chile |
| Website | www.iglesiadecalama.cl |
The Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama ( Latin Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis Calamensis , Spanish diócesis de San Juan Bautista de Calama ) is in Chile located Roman Catholic diocese based in Calama .
history
The diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama was formed on July 21, 1965 from areas of the dioceses of Antofagasta and Iquique as the territorial prelature of Calama . On June 28, 1967, the territorial prelature changed from the Archdiocese of La Serena to the Archdiocese of Antofagasta as the Metropolitan Archdiocese .
The territorial prelature Calama was on February 20, 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama .
Ordinaries
Prelates of Calama
- Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos (1965–1968)
- Orozimbo Fuenzalida y Fuenzalida (1968–1970, then Bishop of Los Ángeles )
- Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos (1970–1970)
- Juan Luis Ysern de Arce (1972–1974)
- Carlos Oviedo Cavada OdeM (1974–1976)
- Juan Bautista Herrada Armijo OdeM (1982–1991)
- Cristián Contreras Molina OdeM (1992–2002, then Bishop of San Felipe )
- Guillermo Patricio Vera Soto (2003-2010)
Bishops of San Juan Bautista de Calama
- Guillermo Patricio Vera Soto (2010-2014)
- Óscar Hernán Blanco Martínez , since 2016
See also
Web links
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