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Metropolitan see Concepción, Chile

Archdiocese of Concepción

Sanctissimae Conceptionis

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Concepción is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese in Chile, originally established in 1563 as the Diocese of La Imperial and promoted to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1939. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Concepción.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, in Concepción, Chile.

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Established
1563
Catholics
612,000
Priests
103
Territory
11,330 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Sergio Pérez de Arce

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Concepción, 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

Seated in the Chilean city of Concepción, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Concepción bears the Latin title Sanctissimae Conceptionis.

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