Archdiocese of Antofagasta
Antofagasten(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Antofagasta, Chile
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.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 February 1928
- Latin
- Antofagasten(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001000704
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 252,300
- Population
- 362,000
- Catholic share
- 69.7%
- Extent
- 84,506 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.0
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
- Archbishop
- Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina
- Born
- 27 February 1969
- Birthplace
- Santiago de Chile
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 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.
The province of Antofagasta
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of IquiqueIquique
- Diocese of San Juan Bautista de CalamaSan Juan Bautista de Calama
- Diocese of San Marcos de AricaSan Marcos de Arica
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Northern Chile's Antofagasta Province is home to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antofagasta (Latin: Antofagasten(sis)), a Latin Rite Metropolitan archdiocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Arzobispado, San Martín 2634, Antofagasta, Chile
- Telephone
- [55]2510.000
- [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].