Apostolic vicariate Pando, Bolivia
Apostolic Vicariate of Pando
Pandoën(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite apostolic vicariate covering the Pando region of Bolivia's Amazon, erected in 1942 and immediately subject to the Holy See, with its seat at the Catedral Nuestra Senora del Carmen in Riberalta. Vicar Apostolic Eugenio Coter, an Italian-born missionary from Bergamo, was consecrated in Riberalta on 24 April 2013.
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- Established
- 1942
- Catholics
- 187,981
- Priests
- 14
- Territory
- 86,261 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
- Eugenio Coter
- Born
- 11 July 1957
- Birthplace
- Gazzaniga
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The cathedral
Catedral Nuestra Senora del Carmen, Riberalta stands in Pando, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
Pando is a missionary territory of the Latin Church in Bolivia, an apostolic vicariate known in Latin as Apostolicus Vicariatus Pandoënsis, with its cathedra at the episcopal see of Riberalta.
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