Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama
Sancti Ioannis Baptistae de Calama
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Juan Bautista de Calama, Chile
The Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama is a Latin Rite diocese in Chile's Antofagasta Region, founded as a territorial prelature in 1965 and elevated to a diocese in 2010. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Antofagasta.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1965
- Latin
- Sancti Ioannis Baptistae de Calama
- Patron
- Saint John the Baptist
- Annuario code
- 001002912
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 150,300
- Population
- 191,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 78.7%
- Priests
- 18
- Catholics per priest
- 8,350
- Extent
- 43,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.5
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
- Tomás Carrasco Cortés
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 John the Baptist stands in San Juan Bautista de Calama, 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 Antofagasta
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Antofagasta.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AntofagastaAntofagasta
- Diocese of IquiqueIquique
- Diocese of San Marcos de AricaSan Marcos de Arica
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Calama, the Diocese of San Juan de Calama (Latin: Sancti Ioannis Calamensis) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Antofagasta in Chile.
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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.