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Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud

Sancti Caroli Ancudiae

The Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud is a Latin Rite diocese covering the Chiloé and Palena provinces in Chile's Los Lagos Region, erected in 1840. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Puerto Montt.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1 July 1840
Latin
Sancti Caroli Ancudiae
Patron
Saint Charles Borromeo
Annuario code
001002876

The see in figures

Catholics
139,000
Population
171,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
81.3%
Priests
22
Catholics per priest
6,318
Extent
24,483 km²
Catholics per km²
5.7

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 Maria Florindo Agurto Muñoz

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 the Tabernacle stands in San Carlos de Ancud, 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

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Puerto Montt.

The sees of this province:

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

History

A suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Puerto Montt in Chile, the Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud carries the Latin title Dioecesis Sancti Caroli Anduciae. In 2005, Bishop Juan María Florindo Agurto Muñoz took up its governance, succeeding the retired bishop emeritus Juan Luis Ysern de Arce.

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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.