Roman Catholic Diocese of Valparaíso

Diocese of Valparaíso
Dioecesis Vallis Paradisi
Diócesis de Valparaíso

Cathedral of St. James
Location
Country Chile
Ecclesiastical province Santiago de Chile
Metropolitan Santiago de Chile
Statistics
Area 4,600 km2 (1,800 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2010)
1,259,000
932,000 (74%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Established 2 November 1872 (144 years ago)
Cathedral Cathedral of St James in Valparaíso
Patron saint Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar
Metropolitan Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello
Auxiliary Bishops Santiago Silva Retamales
Website
www.obispadodevalparaiso.cl

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Valparaíso (Latin: Vallis Paradisi) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Chile in central Chile.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Minor World Heritage Site : Catedral de Santiago, dedicated to the Apostle St. James the Elder (Spanish: Santiago), in the city of Valparaíso, Valparaíso Province

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 966,000 Catholics (74.1% of 1,304,000 total) on 4,763 km² in 69 parishes and 260 missions with 171 priests (86 diocesan, 85 religious), 71 deacons, 406 lay religious (133 brothers, 273 sisters) and 16 seminarians.

History

Ordinaries

(all Roman rite)

Ecclesiastical Superiors of the Independent Mission of Valparaíso
? no data for initial decades
  1. Apostolic Administrator Father Ramón Angel Jara Ruz (born Chile) (1894.03.13 – 1898.04.28), later Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud (Chile) (1898.04.28 – 1909.08.31), Bishop of La Serena (Chile, now Metropolitan) (1909.08.31 – death 1917.03.09)
  2. Apostolic Administrator Eduardo Gimpert Paut (1906.03.10 – 1925.12.14 see below), Titular Bishop of Echinus (1916.04.27 – 1925.12.14)
Suffragan Bishops of Valparaíso
  1. Eduardo Gimpert Paut (see above 1925.12.14 – death 1937.08.29)
  2. Rafael Lira Infante, (1938.03.18 – death 1958.10.26), previously Bishop of Rancagua (Chile) (1925.12.14 – 1938.03.18)
  3. Raúl Silva Henríquez, Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (1959.10.24 – 1961.05.14), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (1961.05.14 – retired 1983.05.03), President of Caritas Internationalis (1962 – 1965), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Bernardo alle Terme (1962.03.22 – death 1999.04.09), President of Episcopal Conference of Chile (1963 – 1968), President of Episcopal Conference of Chile (1972 – 1976)
  4. Archbishop-Bishop Emilio Tagle Covarrubias (1961.05.22 – resigned 1983.05.03); previously Titular Bishop of Arethusa (1958.01.10 – 1959.03.12) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Santiago (de Chile) (1958.01.10 – 1961.05.22), promoted Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum (1959.03.12 – 1961.05.22) as Apostolic Administrator of Archdiocese of Santiago (de Chile) (1959 – 1961.05.14); died 1991
  5. Archbishop-Bishop Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos (1983.05.03 – retired 1993.04.16); previously Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Copiapó (Chile) (1955.06.27 – 1956.05.24 – 1957.08.20), Titular Bishop of Ægeæ (1956.05.24 – 1957.08.20), last suffragan Bishop of Diocese of Antofagasta (Chile) (1957.08.20 – 1967.06.28), Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Calama (Chile) (1965.07.21 – 1968.05.19), promoted first Metropolitan Archbishop of Antofagasta (Chile) (1967.06.28 – 1974.03.25), again Apostolic Administrator of Calama (1970.04 – 1970.06.02), Archbishop-Bishop of Diocese of San Felipe (Chile) (1974.03.25 – 1983.05.03), President of Episcopal Conference of Chile (1977 – 1980); died 1998
    1. Auxiliary Bishop: Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz, Picpus Fathers (SS.CC.) (1988.04.28 – 1993.04.16) previously Bishop of Iquique (Chile) (1984.07.09 – 1988.04.28); later Bishop of Rancagua (Chile) (1993.04.16 – retired 2004.04.23)
  6. Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez (1993.04.16 – 1996.06.21); previously Titular Bishop of Thibilis (1984.12.18 – 1987.11.25), Bishop of Rancagua (Chile) (1987.11.25 – 1993.04.16); later Pro-Prefect of Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (1996.06.21 – 1998.02.23), Archbishop ad personam (1996.09.19 – 1998.02.21), created Cardinal-Deacon of S. Saba (1998.02.21 [1998.05.24] – 2008.03.01), Prefect of Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (1998.02.23 – 2002.10.01), Protodeacon of College of Cardinals (2005.02.24 – 2007.02.23), promoted Cardinal-Priest of above S. Saba pro hac vice Title (2008.03.01 – ...)
    1. Auxiliary Bishop: Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid (1995.04.12 – 2000.11.21), Titular Bishop of Bilta (1995.04.12 – 2000.11.21); later Bishop of Iquique (Chile) (2000.11.21 – 2004.10.09), Military Ordinary of Chile (Chile) (2004.10.09 – 2015.01.10), Bishop of Osorno (Chile) (2015.01.10 – ...)
  7. Archbishop-Bishop Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Schoenstatt Movement (I.Sch., Schönstatt Fathers) (1996.09.24 – 1998.04.24); previously Superior General of Institute of Schönstatt Fathers (1974 – 1990.12.22), Titular Archbishop of Hólar (1990.12.22 – 1996.09.24) as Secretary of Roman Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life (1990.12.22 – 1996.09.24); later President of Episcopal Conference of Chile (1998 – 2004), Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago (Chile) (1998.04.24 – 2010.12.15), First Vice-President of Latin American Episcopal Council (1999 – 2003), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Pace (2001.02.21 [2001.10.15] – ...), President of Latin American Episcopal Council (2003 – 2007.07.12), Member of Council of Cardinals to assist in the governance of the Universal Church and to reform the Roman Curia (2013.04.13 – ...)
  8. Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar, SS.CC. (1998.12.04 – ... ), previously Titular Bishop of Lamiggiga (1995.01.31 – 1998.03.07) and Military Ordinary of Chile (Chile) (1995.01.31 – 1999.11.04)
    1. Auxiliary Bishop: Santiago Jaime Silva Retamales (2002.02.16 – 2015.07.07), Titular Bishop of Bela (2002.02.16 – 2015.07.07); also/later Secretary General of Latin American Episcopal Council (2011.05.19 – 2015.05.15), Military Ordinary of Chile (Chile) (2015.07.07 – ...), President of Episcopal Conference of Chile (2016.11.11 – ...).

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