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Diocese of Illapel
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Illapel is a Latin Church territorial prelature (not a full diocese) in Chile's Choapa Province, established in 1960 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of La Serena. Its prelate-bishop Julio Larrondo Yáñez took office in March 2024.
- Bishop
- Julio Esteban Larrondo Yáñez
- Latin name
- Ilapen(sis)
- Erected
- 30 April 1960
- Cathedral
- Cathedral of San Rafael
- Patron
- Saint Raphael the Archangel
- Rank
- Prelatura Territoriale Suffraganea
- Rite
- Latin
- Province
- La Serena
- Catholics
- 67,580
- Chancery
- Calle Constitución 20, Illapel, IV Región de Coquimbo, Chile
- Telephone
- Tel. 963.925.540; 963.925.530
- [email protected]
Contact as printed in the Annuario Pontificio.
Neighbouring dioceses
- Diocese of San Felipe 153 km
- Diocese of Valparaíso 163 km
- Diocese of La Serena 193 km
- Cile 205 km
- Diocese of Santiago 206 km
- Diocese of San Bernardo 222 km
Parishes near the see
- Nuestra Señora de Fátima · Illapel <1 km
- San José Obrero · Chillipin 2 km
- Nuestro Señor Jesucristo Crucificado · Huintil 19 km
- Santo Tomás · El Tambo 22 km
- Nuestra Señora del Rosario · Salamanca 25 km
- Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria · Mincha 27 km
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Sources: wikidata-p488 · Annuario code 001000270 · ontology v0.3.2 · updated 2026-06-08