Diocese of San Felipe
Sancti Philippi
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Felipe, Chile
The Diocese of San Felipe is a Latin Rite diocese in Chile's Valparaíso Region covering Los Andes, Petorca, and San Felipe de Aconcagua, erected in 1925. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 October 1925
- Latin
- Sancti Philippi
- Patron
- Saint Philip the Apostle
- Annuario code
- 001002889
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 269,000
- Population
- 337,000
- Catholic share
- 79.8%
- Priests
- 40
- Catholics per priest
- 6,725
- Extent
- 10,223 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 26
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
- Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Álvarez
- Born
- 30 December 1962
- Birthplace
- Valparaíso
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 Philip stands in San Felipe, 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:
- Archdiocese of Santiago de ChileSantiago de Chile
- Diocese of LinaresLinares
- Diocese of MelipillaMelipilla
- Diocese of RancaguaRancagua
- Diocese of San BernardoSan Bernardo
- Diocese of TalcaTalca
- Diocese of ValparaísoValparaíso
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The see of San Felipe (Latin: Sancti Philippi), seated in the Chilean city of the same name, belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Chile. From 21 September 2018, when Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Cristián Contreras Molina (whom the Vatican had found innocent of charges of sexual abuse, civil charges having been dropped for lack of evidence), the diocese was governed by an apostolic administrator, Jaime Ortiz de Lazcano Piquer. That interim ended on 26 May 2020 with the appointment of Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Álvarez as bishop; he was consecrated and installed on 13 August.
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].