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Diocese of San Felipe

Sancti Philippi

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Felipe, Chile

The Diocese of San Felipe is a Latin Rite diocese in Chile's Valparaíso Region covering Los Andes, Petorca, and San Felipe de Aconcagua, erected in 1925. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
18 October 1925
Latin
Sancti Philippi
Patron
Saint Philip the Apostle
Annuario code
001002889

The see in figures

Catholics
269,000
Population
337,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
79.8%
Priests
40
Catholics per priest
6,725
Extent
10,223 km²
Catholics per km²
26

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
Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Álvarez
Born
30 December 1962
Birthplace
Valparaíso

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 Saint Philip stands in San Felipe, 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 Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile.

The sees of this province:

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

History

The see of San Felipe (Latin: Sancti Philippi), seated in the Chilean city of the same name, belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Chile. From 21 September 2018, when Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Cristián Contreras Molina (whom the Vatican had found innocent of charges of sexual abuse, civil charges having been dropped for lack of evidence), the diocese was governed by an apostolic administrator, Jaime Ortiz de Lazcano Piquer. That interim ended on 26 May 2020 with the appointment of Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Álvarez as bishop; he was consecrated and installed on 13 August.

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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.