Diocese of Potosí
Potosien(sis) in Bolivia
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Potosí, Bolivia
Latin rite diocese in the historic mining city of Potosi, Bolivia, erected 11 November 1924, and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sucre. Its seat is the Catedral Basilica de Nuestra Senora de La Paz in Potosi, a minor basilica within the UNESCO World Heritage city. Bishop Nicolas Renan Aguilera Arroyo has led the diocese since 28 October 2020.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 November 1924
- Latin
- Potosien(sis) in Bolivia
- Patron
- san Juan María Vianney
- Annuario code
- 001002658
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 651,144
- Population
- 723,494
- Catholic share
- 90.0%
- Priests
- 47
- Catholics per priest
- 13,854
- Extent
- 118,218 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.5
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
- Bishop
- Nicolas Renan Aguilera Arroyo
- Born
- 9 May 1972
- Birthplace
- Tarija Cancha Sud
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 Basilica de Nuestra Senora de La Paz, Potosi stands in Potosí, 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.
The province of Sucre
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Sucre.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of SucreSucre
- Diocese of TarijaTarija
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Potosí, this Bolivian diocese (Latin: Dioecesis Potosiensis in Bolivia) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Sucre.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Calle Ayacucho 18, Potosí, Bolivia
- Telephone
- [02]622-6893; fax 622-4347
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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].