La Imperial, Chile
La Imperial or Ciudad Imperial was a city founded by Pedro de Valdivia on 16 April 1552 and named in honor of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, then king of Spain. It was abandoned on 5 April 1600 and destroyed as a result of the Mapuche Uprising of 1598 during the War of Arauco. The ruins were called Antigua Imperial. A city was refounded there in 1882 under the name Carahue.
Ecclesiastical history
- Established on 1563.05.22 as Diocese of La Imperial / Civitatis Imperialis on territory split off from the only two year older Diocese of Santiago de Chile as Suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lima
- Suppressed in 1603, as the city was destroyed in 1600, its territory being reassigned to establish the then Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Concepción.
- Antonio de San Miguel Avendaño y Paz, Friars Minor , next Bishop of Quito
- Agustín de Cisneros Montesa
- Reginaldo de Lizárraga, Dominican Order , next first Bishop of successor see Concepción , Bishop of Paraguay .
Titular see
It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal rank :
- Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, Salesians as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile ; previously Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Valdivia ; later Metropolitan Archbishop of Concepción , President of Episcopal Conference of Chile, Metropolitan Archbishop of above Santiago , created Cardinal-Priest of SS. Redentore a Valmelaina
- Pedro Ossandón Buljevic first as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Concepción , then as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile .