Diocese of El Alto
Altan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · El Alto, Bolivia
Latin rite diocese covering the high-plateau city of El Alto, Bolivia, erected 25 June 1994 from the Archdiocese of La Paz, of which it is a suffragan. Its seat is the Catedral Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria. Bishop Giovani Edgar Arana has led the diocese since 2021.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 June 1994
- Latin
- Altan(us)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora de Copacabana, São João Bosco
- Annuario code
- 001001351
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 905,000
- Population
- 1,220,000
- Catholic share
- 74.2%
- Priests
- 57
- Catholics per priest
- 15,877
- Extent
- 23,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 39
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
- Giovani Edgar Arana
- Born
- 15 December 1943
- Birthplace
- Sucre
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 Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria, El Alto stands in El Alto, 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 La Paz
A suffragan of Archdiocese of La Paz.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of La PazLa Paz
- Diocese of CoroicoCoroico
- Territorial Prelature of CorocoroCorocoro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
This Bolivian see, Dioecesis Altanus in Latin, has its seat in the city of El Alto and forms part of the ecclesiastical province of La Paz.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Zona San Felipe de Seke, Calle Mercurio 1000, El Alto, Bolivia
- [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].