Catholic Intelligence

Diocese of San Bernardo

Sancti Bernardi

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Bernardo, Chile

The Diocese of San Bernardo is a Latin Rite diocese in Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region, erected in 1987. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, with its see at the Cathedral of Saint Bernard.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
13 July 1987
Latin
Sancti Bernardi
Patron
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Annuario code
001002874

The see in figures

Catholics
613,000
Population
842,000
Catholic share
72.8%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
60
Catholics per priest
10,217
Extent
1,145 km²
Catholics per km²
535

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
Juan Ignacio González Errázuriz
Born
5 July 1956
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

Cathedral of Saint Bernard stands in San Bernardo, 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

Seated in the city of San Bernardo, this Chilean diocese (Latin: Sancti Bernardi) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Chile.

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.

Ask to enter

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].