Apostolic Vicariate of Pando
Pandoën(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Pando, Bolivia
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.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 April 1942
- Latin
- Pandoën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000434
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 187,981
- Population
- 208,867
- Catholic share
- 90.0%
- Priests
- 14
- Catholics per priest
- 13,427
- Extent
- 86,261 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.2
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Eugenio Coter
- Born
- 11 July 1957
- Birthplace
- Gazzaniga
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 del Carmen, Riberalta stands in Pando, 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
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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle Dr. Antonio Vaca Díez 116, Riberalta [Beni], Bolivia
- Telephone
- [03]85.23.432; fax 85.23.146
- [email protected]
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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].