Suffragan diocese Tarija, Bolivia
Diocese of Tarija
Tariien(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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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.