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Suffragan diocese Coroico, Bolivia

Diocese of Coroico

Coroicen(sis)

Latin Church

Latin rite diocese in Bolivia, established in 1958 as a territorial prelature and promoted to a diocese in 1983. It is a suffragan of La Paz and has been led by Bishop Juan Carlos Huaygua Oropeza since 2022.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, in Coroico, Bolivia.

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Established
1958
Catholics
171,000
Priests
31
Territory
31,699 km²

Parishes and churches

8 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Juan Carlos Huaygua Oropeza, O.P.

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The cathedral

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul stands in Coroico, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Coroico, a city within Bolivia's ecclesiastical province of La Paz, gives its name and seat to this diocese, known in Latin as Dioecesis Coroicensis.

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