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Diocese of Rancagua

Rancaguen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Rancagua, Chile

The Diocese of Rancagua is a Latin Rite diocese in Chile's O'Higgins Region, erected in 1925. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, with its see at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Rancagua.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
18 October 1925
Latin
Rancaguen(sis)
Patron
Holy Cross
Annuario code
001002720

The see in figures

Catholics
699,000
Population
869,000
Catholic share
80.4%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
102
Catholics per priest
6,853
Extent
16,042 km²
Catholics per km²
44

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
Guillermo Patricio Vera Soto
Born
7 June 1958
Birthplace
Isla de Maipo

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 Holy Cross stands in Rancagua, 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 Santiago de Chile

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Established on 18 October 1925 as the Diócesis de Santa Cruz de Rancagua, through the papal bull Apostolici muneris ratio of Pope Pius XII, this Chilean see (Latin: Dioecesis Rancaguensis) serves as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. Its current bishop is Guillermo Patricio Vera Soto, appointed by Pope Francis on 8 June 2021.

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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

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].