Diocese of Coroico
Coroicen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Coroico, Bolivia
Latin rite diocese in Bolivia, established in 1958 as a territorial prelature and promoted to a diocese in 1983. It is a suffragan of La Paz and has been led by Bishop Juan Carlos Huaygua Oropeza since 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 November 1958
- Latin
- Coroicen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Peter, Saint Paul of Tarsus
- Annuario code
- 001001218
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 171,000
- Population
- 193,600
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 88.3%
- Priests
- 31
- Catholics per priest
- 5,516
- Extent
- 31,699 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.4
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
- Juan Carlos Huaygua Oropeza, O.P.
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 of Saints Peter and Paul stands in Coroico, 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 El AltoEl Alto
- Territorial Prelature of CorocoroCorocoro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Coroico, a city within Bolivia's ecclesiastical province of La Paz, gives its name and seat to this diocese, known in Latin as Dioecesis Coroicensis.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Calle Adalid Linares s/n, Coroico, La Paz, Bolivia
- Telephone
- 7318.0283
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.