Archdiocese of La Serena


The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of La Serena is an archdiocese located in the city of La Serena in Chile.
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History

Special churches

Current Leadership

On Saturday, December 14, 2013, Pope Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral governance of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of La Serena, presented by Archbishop Gerardo Manuel Donoso Donoso, SS.CC., in accordance with Canon 401.1 of the Latin Rite 1983 Code of Canon Law. Pope Francis appointed as the next Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of La Serena, Archbishop René Osvaldo Rebolledo Salinas, who until then had been Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osorno, in Osorno, Chile. On October 11, 2018, Pope Francis laicized former Archbishop Francisco José Cox Huneeus amid accusations of sexual abuse against children

Bishops

Ordinaries, in reverse chronological order

Coadjutor archbishops

Auxiliary bishops

  • Guillermo Juan Carter Gallo, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Tarapacá
  • Eduardo Solar Vicuña
  • Manuel Gerardo Donoso Donoso, SS.CC., appointed Archbishop here
  • Luis Gleisner Wobbe

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

  • Pedro Aguilera Narbona, appointed Bishop of Iquique in 1941
  • José del Carmen Valle Gallardo, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Iquique in 1963

Suffragan dioceses