Diocese of San Ignacio de Velasco
Sancti Ignatii Velascani
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia
Latin rite diocese in the Chiquitania region of eastern Bolivia, established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Chiquitos on 27 January 1930 and elevated to a diocese on 3 November 1994. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, its seat is the Cathedral of St. Ignatius in San Ignacio de Velasco. American-born Bishop Robert Herman Flock has led the diocese since 2017.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1930
- Latin
- Sancti Ignatii Velascani
- Annuario code
- 001002902
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 220,000
- Population
- 245,000
- Catholic share
- 89.8%
- Priests
- 31
- Catholics per priest
- 7,097
- Extent
- 197,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.1
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
- Robert Herman Flock
- Born
- 4 November 1956
- Birthplace
- Sparta
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
Cathedral of St. Ignatius, San Ignacio de Velasco stands in San Ignacio de Velasco, 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 Santa Cruz de la Sierra
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la SierraSanta Cruz de la Sierra
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of San Ignacio de Velasco is the seat of this diocese, Dioecesis Sancti Ignatii Velascani in Latin, part of the ecclesiastical province of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Plaza 31 de Julio, San Ignacio de Velasco, Dept. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- Telephone
- [03]962.2011; fax 962.2010
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].