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Apostolic vicariate Ñuflo de Chávez, Bolivia

Apostolic Vicariate of Ñuflo de Chávez

Niuflen(sis)

Latin Church

Latin rite apostolic vicariate in the Santa Cruz department of Bolivia, established by Pope Pius XII on 13 December 1951 from the Vicariate Apostolic of Chiquitos. Immediately subject to the Holy See, its seat is the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion in Concepcion. Vicar Apostolic Bonifacio Antonio Reimann Panic, O.F.M. has served since 31 October 2001.

On the map

Esri
Ñuflo de Chávez, Bolivia, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1951
Catholics
152,000
Priests
21
Territory
81,493 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Vicar Apostolic
Bonifacio Antonio Reimann Panic, O.F.M.

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The cathedral

Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Concepcion stands in Ñuflo de Chávez, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Ñuflo de Chávez is a missionary ecclesiastical territory of the Latin Church in Bolivia, an apostolic vicariate titled Apostolicus Vicariatus Niuflensis in Latin. Immediately exempt to the Holy See, it places its cathedra at the episcopal see of Concepción, Santa Cruz.