Military Ordinariate of Bolivia
Military ordinariate · Latin Church · Bolivia
Military ordinariate providing pastoral care to Catholics in the Bolivian Armed Forces, created as a military vicariate on 19 March 1961 and elevated to an ordinariate on 21 July 1986. Its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lujan in the Irpavi district of La Paz. The see is currently vacant.
The see
- Rank
- Military ordinariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 March 1961
- Annuario code
- 001000344
The see in figures
- Priests
- 15
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Fernando Bascopé Müller
- Born
- 4 April 1962
- Birthplace
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- Institute
- SOCIETÀ SALESIANA DI S. GIOVANNI BOSCO (SALESIANI)
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Catedral Nuestra Senora de Lujan, La Paz stands in Bolivia, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Catholics serving in the Bolivian Armed Forces, together with their families, receive pastoral care from the Military Bishopric of Bolivia (Latin: Ordinariatus Militaris Boliviensis, Spanish: Obispado Castrense de Bolivia), a Latin Church military ordinariate immediately exempt to the Holy See.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Avenida Tte. Rafael Pabón, Calle 1, Irpavi, La Paz
- Telephone
- [02]272.31.04; fax 272.33.38
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.