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Suffragan diocese San Felipe, Chile

Diocese of San Felipe

Sancti Philippi

Latin Church

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.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Cathedral of Saint Philip, in San Felipe, Chile.

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Established
1925
Catholics
269,000
Priests
40
Territory
10,223 km²

Parishes and churches

28 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Álvarez
Born
30 December 1962
Birthplace
Valparaíso

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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.

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.