Archdiocese of Cochabamba
Cochabamben(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Cochabamba, Bolivia
Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese in central Bolivia, erected as a diocese in 1847 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 30 July 1975. Its seat is the Catedral Metropolitana San Sebastian in Cochabamba. Archbishop Oscar Omar Aparicio Cespedes has led the archdiocese since 2014.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 June 1847
- Latin
- Cochabamben(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001185
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,390,300
- Population
- 1,524,000
- Catholic share
- 91.2%
- Priests
- 249
- Catholics per priest
- 5,584
- Extent
- 32,306 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 43
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
- Archbishop
- Oscar Omar Aparicio Cespedes
- Born
- 26 September 1959
- Birthplace
- La Paz
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
Catedral Metropolitana San Sebastian, Cochabamba stands in Cochabamba, 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
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of OruroOruro
- Territorial Prelature of AiquileAiquile
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, this archdiocese carries the Latin title Archidioecesis Cochabambensis.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Arzobispado, Casilla 129, Av. Heroínas 0-152, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- Telephone
- [04]425-6562/3; fax 425-0522
- [email protected]
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].