Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud
Sancti Caroli Ancudiae
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Carlos de Ancud, Chile
The Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud is a Latin Rite diocese covering the Chiloé and Palena provinces in Chile's Los Lagos Region, erected in 1840. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Puerto Montt.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 July 1840
- Latin
- Sancti Caroli Ancudiae
- Patron
- Saint Charles Borromeo
- Annuario code
- 001002876
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 139,000
- Population
- 171,000
- Catholic share
- 81.3%
- Priests
- 22
- Catholics per priest
- 6,318
- Extent
- 24,483 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 5.7
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
- Juan Maria Florindo Agurto Muñoz
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 Tabernacle stands in San Carlos de Ancud, 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 Puerto Montt
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Puerto Montt.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of OsornoOsorno
- Archdiocese of Puerto MonttPuerto Montt
- Diocese of Punta ArenasPunta Arenas
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Puerto Montt in Chile, the Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud carries the Latin title Dioecesis Sancti Caroli Anduciae. In 2005, Bishop Juan María Florindo Agurto Muñoz took up its governance, succeeding the retired bishop emeritus Juan Luis Ysern de Arce.
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.
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].