Roman Catholic Diocese of Valparaíso
The Diocese of Valparaíso is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Santiago de Chile in central Chile.
Its cathedral episcopal see, the Catedral de Santiago, dedicated to the Apostle St. James the Elder in the city of Valparaíso, Valparaíso Province, is a Minor World Heritage Site.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 966,000 Catholics on 4,763 km² in 69 parishes and 260 missions with 171 priests, 71 deacons, 406 lay religious and 16 seminarians.History
- Established on November 2, 1872 as Mission “sui iuris” of Valparaíso on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile
- Promoted on October 18, 1925 to Diocese of Valparaíso
- Lost territory in 1981 to the Diocese of San Felipe
- Gained territory in 2001 from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Araucanía.
Bishops
Bishops of Valparaíso
- Eduardo Gimpert Paut
- Rafael Lira Infante,
- Raúl Silva Henríquez, O.S.B., appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
- Emilio Tagle Covarrubias, Archbishop
- Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos, Archbishop
- Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez, appointed Pro-Prefect, and later Prefect, of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
- Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, I.Sch., Archbishop ; appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
- Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar, SS.CC.
- Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco, S.V.D.
Auxiliary bishops
- Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz, SS.CC., appointed Bishop of Rancagua
- Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid, appointed Bishop of Iquique
- Santiago Jaime Silva Retamales, appointed Bishop of Chile, Militar
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Mariano Jaime Casanova Casanova, appointed Archbishop of Santiago de Chile in 1886
- Salvador Donos Rodríguez, never consecrated bishop
- Manuel Tomás Mesa
- Ramón Ángel Jara Ruz, appointed Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud
- José Manuel Santos Ascarza, appointed Bishop of Valdivia in 1955
- Francisco Javier Gillmore Stock, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Chile, Military in 1959; consecrated bishop in 1962
- Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia, appointed Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud in 1966
- Carlos Marcio Camus Larenas, appointed Bishop of Copiapó in 1968
- Gonzalo Arturo Bravo Álvarez, appointed Bishop of San Felipe in 2020