Diocese of Santa María de Los Ángeles
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa María de Los Ángeles is a diocese located in the city of Los Ángeles in the ecclesiastical province of Concepción in Chile.
History
- 20 June 1959: Established as Diocese of Los Ángeles from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Concepción and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Temuco
Bishops
- Bishops of Santa María de Los Ángeles, in reverse chronological order
- * Bishop Felipe Bacarreza Rodríguez
- * Bishop Miguel Caviedes Medina
- * Bishop Adolfo Rodríguez Vidal
- * Bishop Orozimbo Fuenzalida y Fuenzalida, appointed Bishop of San Bernardo
- * Bishop Alejandro Durán Moreira, appointed Bishop of Rancagua
- * Bishop Luis Yáñez Ruiz Tagle
- * Bishop Manuel Sánchez Beguiristáin, appointed Archbishop of Concepción
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Francisco Javier Stegmeier Schmidlin, appointed Bishop of Villarrica