Territorial Prelature of Corocoro
Corocoren(sis)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Corocoro, Bolivia
Latin rite territorial prelature in the ecclesiastical province of La Paz, Bolivia, erected in 1949 with its seat at Coro Coro. Bishop-Prelate Pascual Limachi Ortiz has led the prelature since 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 December 1949
- Latin
- Corocoren(sis)
- Patron
- Asunción de Santa María Virgen
- Annuario code
- 001000262
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 190,430
- Population
- 210,894
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 90.3%
- Priests
- 16
- Catholics per priest
- 11,902
- Extent
- 28,823 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 6.6
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
- Pascual Limachi Ortiz
- Born
- 5 May 1963
- Birthplace
- Chacoma Irpa Grande
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
Cathedral in Coro Coro stands in Corocoro, 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.
The province of La Paz
A suffragan of Archdiocese of La Paz.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of La PazLa Paz
- Diocese of CoroicoCoroico
- Diocese of El AltoEl Alto
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Centered on the town of Coro Coro, this territorial prelature (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Corocorensis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of La Paz in Bolivia.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Plaza Avaroa, s/n, Patacamaya, Aroma, Bolivia
- Telephone and fax
- [02]839.2405
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.