Territorial Prelature of Aiquile
Aiquilen(sis)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Aiquile, Bolivia
Latin rite territorial prelature in the ecclesiastical province of Cochabamba, Bolivia, erected in 1961 with its seat at Aiquile. Bishop-Prelate Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. has led the prelature since 25 March 2009.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 December 1961
- Latin
- Aiquilen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000251
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 190,000
- Population
- 220,000
- Catholic share
- 86.4%
- Priests
- 16
- Catholics per priest
- 11,875
- Extent
- 23,325 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.1
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M.
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 St Peter in Aiquile stands in Aiquile, 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 Cochabamba
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cochabamba.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CochabambaCochabamba
- Diocese of OruroOruro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Bolivia, the city of Aiquile gives its name to a territorial prelature (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Aiquilensis) within the ecclesiastical province of Cochabamba.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Casa Guadalupe, Calle Aurelio Meleán 421, Casilla 1887, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- Telephone
- [04]434.30.60; fax 413.60.72
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].