CHIQUITOS, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE OF. - It is located in the central-southern part of Bolivia.

It has an area of 210,000 sq. km. and a population of about 45,000 inhabitants, the majority of whom are Catholics. The first to work there were the Jesuits coming from Paraguay, who in 1767, when they were expelled, left behind more than 20,000 converted Indians. The mission then passed under the jurisdiction of the diocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, from which it was detached in 1930 to be erected as an apostolic vicariate entrusted to the Friars Minor.

At present there are 18 priests of the Order of Friars Minor, 5 Franciscan brothers and 11 sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. Religious life is well organized: there are 16 churches, 38 chapels, and several elementary and secondary schools.

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BIBL.: AAS, 13 (1930), pp. 364-66; G. Arcila Robledo, La Orden franciscana en la América meridional, Rome 1948, pp. 212-215; Arch. Prop. Fide, Relazione quinquennale (1949), pos. prot. n. 1446/99.

Antonio Mazza

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