Diocese of Iquique
Iquiquen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Iquique, Chile
The Diocese of Iquique is a Latin Church suffragan diocese in the Tarapacá Region of northern Chile, promoted to a diocese in 1929 from the earlier Apostolic Vicariate of Tarapacá. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Antofagasta.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 December 1929
- Latin
- Iquiquen(sis)
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001001670
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 124,447
- Population
- 238,000
- Catholic share
- 52.3%
- Priests
- 35
- Catholics per priest
- 3,556
- Extent
- 41,799 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
- Bishop
- Isauro Ulises Covili Linfati
- Born
- 22 March 1961
- Birthplace
- Lumaco
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI
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
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Iquique, 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
A suffragan of Antofagasta.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AntofagastaAntofagasta
- 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
In the ecclesiastical province of Antofagasta, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Iquique (Latin: Iquiquen(sis)) has its seat in the city of Iquique, Chile.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Calle Bolívar 588, Iquique, Chile
- Telephone
- [57]2417.697
- [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].