Suffragan territorial prelature Illapel, Chile
Diocese of Illapel
Ilapen(sis)
Latin Church
Illapel is a Latin Church territorial prelature (not a full diocese) in Chile's Choapa Province, established in 1960 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of La Serena. Its prelate-bishop Julio Larrondo Yáñez took office in March 2024.
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- Established
- 1960
- Catholics
- 67,580
- Priests
- 12
- Territory
- 10,350 km²
Parishes and churches
12 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- San RafaelIllapel · CathedralView parish
- Cristo ReyGuangualiView parish
- Nuestra Señora de FátimaIllapelView parish
- Nuestra Señora de la CandelariaMinchaView parish
- Nuestra Señora del CarmenPalo ColoradoView parish
- Nuestra Señora del CarmenLos VilosView parish
- Nuestra Señora del RosarioSalamancaView parish
- Nuestra Señora del TransitoCanelaView parish
- Nuestro Señor Jesucristo CrucificadoHuintilView parish
- San Antonio de PaduaCaimanesView parish
- San José ObreroChillipinView parish
- Santo TomásEl TamboView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Julio Esteban Larrondo Yáñez
- Born
- 23 August 1959
- Birthplace
- Santiago de Chile
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The cathedral
Cathedral of San Rafael stands in Illapel, 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
The city of Illapel, in the ecclesiastical province of La Serena in Chile, is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Illapel (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Ilapensis).