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Suffragan diocese San Juan Bautista de Calama, Chile

Diocese of San Juan Bautista de Calama

Sancti Ioannis Baptistae de Calama

Latin Church

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.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, in San Juan Bautista de Calama, Chile.

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Established
1965
Catholics
150,300
Priests
18
Territory
43,000 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Tomás Carrasco Cortés

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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.

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.

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