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Apostolic Vicariate of Ñuflo de Chávez

Niuflen(sis)

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.

The see

Rank
Apostolic vicariate
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
13 December 1951
Latin
Niuflen(sis)
Annuario code
001000432

The see in figures

Catholics
152,000
Population
180,000
Catholic share
84.4%

of the people living within its bounds

Extent
81,493 km²
Catholics per km²
1.9

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

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

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 de la Inmaculada Concepcion, Concepcion stands in Ñuflo de Chávez, 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.

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.

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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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.

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Sources

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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].