Diocese of Valdivia Dioecesis Valdiviensis Diócesis de Valdivia | |
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Location | |
Country | Chile |
Ecclesiastical province | Concepción |
Metropolitan | Concepción |
Statistics | |
Area | 13,679 km2 (5,281 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 297,000 237,000 (79.8%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | 14 June 1910 (114 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral Nuestra Señora del Rosario |
Patron saint | Our Lady of the Rosary |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Santiago Jaime Silva Retamales |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib |
Website | |
www.obispadodevaldivia.cl |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Valdivia (Latin: Valdivien(sis)) is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Concepción in Chile.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Nuestra Señora del Rosario, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, in the city of Valdivia, Los Ríos.