Apostolic vicariate El Beni o Beni, Bolivia
Apostolic Vicariate of El Beni o Beni
Benen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite apostolic vicariate covering Bolivia's Amazonian Beni region, erected in 1917 and immediately subject to the Holy See. Its seat is the Catedral de la Santisima Trinidad in Trinidad. Vicar Apostolic Aurelio Pesoa Ribera, O.F.M., appointed 28 November 2020, is also president of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference.
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- Established
- 1917
- Catholics
- 164,808
- Priests
- 25
- Territory
- 150,686 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Vicar Apostolic
- Aurelio Pesoa Ribera, O.F.M.
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The cathedral
Catedral de la Santisima Trinidad, Trinidad stands in El Beni o Beni, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
El Beni, often shortened simply to Beni, is an apostolic vicariate of the Latin Church, a missionary ecclesiastical territory bearing the Latin title Apostolicus Vicariatus Benensis. Exempt from any ecclesiastical province, it keeps its cathedra in the Catedral de la Santísima Trinidad, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, at the episcopal see of Trinidad in Bolivia's Amazonian interior.