Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama
Sancti Ioannis Baptistae de Calama
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Juan Bautista de Calama, Chile
The Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama is a Latin Rite diocese in Chile's Antofagasta Region, founded as a territorial prelature in 1965 and elevated to a diocese in 2010. It is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Antofagasta.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1965
- Latin
- Sancti Ioannis Baptistae de Calama
- Patron
- Saint John the Baptist
- Annuario code
- 001002912
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 150,300
- Population
- 191,000
- Catholic share
- 78.7%
- Priests
- 18
- Catholics per priest
- 8,350
- Extent
- 43,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.5
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
- Tomás Carrasco Cortés
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 John the Baptist stands in San Juan Bautista de Calama, 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 Antofagasta
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Antofagasta.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AntofagastaAntofagasta
- Diocese of IquiqueIquique
- Diocese of San Marcos de AricaSan Marcos de Arica
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Calama, the Diocese of San Juan de Calama (Latin: Sancti Ioannis Calamensis) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Antofagasta in 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.
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].