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Diocese of Santa María de Los Ángeles

S. Mariae Angelorum

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Santa María de Los Ángeles, Chile

The Diocese of Santa María de Los Ángeles is a Latin Rite diocese in Chile's Biobío Region, erected in 1959. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Concepción, with its see at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Angels.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1959
Latin
S. Mariae Angelorum
Patron
Our Lady of the Angels
Annuario code
001002951

The see in figures

Catholics
238,000
Population
356,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
66.9%
Priests
37
Catholics per priest
6,432
Extent
13,454 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
Cristián Castro Toovey
Born
28 March 1969
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 Saint Mary of the Angels stands in Santa María de Los Ángeles, 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 Concepción

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Concepción.

The sees of this province:

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

History

The city of Los Ángeles is the seat of this Chilean diocese (Latin: Sanctae Mariae Angelorum), which forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Concepción.

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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.