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Territorial Prelature of Corocoro

Corocoren(sis)

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:

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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Sources

Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.