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Metropolitan see Antofagasta, Chile

Archdiocese of Antofagasta

Antofagasten(sis)

Antofagasta is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese in northern Chile, established as a mission in 1881 and promoted to a metropolitan archdiocese on 28 June 1967, with suffragan sees including Iquique, Calama, and San Marcos de Arica. It has been led by Archbishop Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina since 2017.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral San Jose, in Antofagasta, Chile.

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Established
1881
Catholics
252,300
Priests
36
Territory
84,506 km²

Parishes and churches

19 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Archbishop
Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina
Born
27 February 1969
Birthplace
Santiago de Chile

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The cathedral

Catedral San Jose stands in Antofagasta, 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

Northern Chile's Antofagasta Province is home to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antofagasta (Latin: Antofagasten(sis)), a Latin Rite Metropolitan archdiocese.