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Archdiocese of Puerto Montt

Portus Montt

Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Puerto Montt, Chile

The Archdiocese of Puerto Montt is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese in Chile's Los Lagos Region, established as a diocese in 1939 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1963. Its suffragans include Osorno, San Carlos de Ancud, and Punta Arenas.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1 April 1939
Latin
Portus Montt
Patron
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Annuario code
001002679

The see in figures

Catholics
235,097
Population
329,776
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
71.3%
Priests
49
Catholics per priest
4,798
Extent
18,205 km²
Catholics per km²
13

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

Archbishop
Luis Fernando Ramos Pérez
Born
2 January 1959
Birthplace
Santiago de Chile

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 Our Lady of Mount Carmel stands in Puerto Montt, 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 Puerto Montt

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

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

History

A Metropolitan See of the Roman Catholic church in Chile, the Archdiocese of Puerto Montt (in Latin: Archidioecesis Portus Montt) presides over three suffragan dioceses: Osorno, San Carlos de Ancud and Punta Arenas.

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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.