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Diocese of Linares

Linaren(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Linares, Chile

The Diocese of San Ambrosio de Linares is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in Chile's Maule Region, established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. Tomislav Koljatic Maroevic has been its sixth bishop since 2003.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
18 October 1925
Latin
Linaren(sis)
Patron
Saint Ambrose
Annuario code
001002009

The see in figures

Catholics
271,038
Population
361,384
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
75.0%
Priests
41
Catholics per priest
6,611
Extent
15,110 km²
Catholics per km²
18

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
Tomislav Koljatic Maroevic

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 San Ambrosio stands in Linares, 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 Santiago de Chile

A suffragan of Santiago de Chile.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

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Sources

The see's own website · 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.