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Suffragan diocese Tarija, Bolivia

Diocese of Tarija

Tariien(sis)

Latin rite diocese in southern Bolivia, erected in 1924, and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sucre. Its seat is the Catedral de San Bernardo in Tarija. Bishop Jorge Angel Saldias Pedraza, O.P. has led the diocese since 2019.

On the map

Esri
Tarija, Bolivia, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1924
Catholics
348,034
Priests
56
Territory
37,623 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

Bishop
Jorge Angel Saldias Pedraza, O.P.

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The cathedral

Catedral de San Bernardo, Tarija stands in Tarija, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Tarija, a city in Bolivia's ecclesiastical province of Sucre, is the seat of this diocese, called Dioecesis Tariiensis in Latin.