MOST HOLY CONCEPTION (Conception), Archdiocese of. - City and archdiocese of Chile, in the province of Concepción, Arauco and Bio-Bio, in South America.

It has an area of 26,000 sq. km., with a population of 535,000 inhabitants, of whom 530,000 are Catholics; it has 42 parishes served by 63 diocesan priests and 62 regulars; it has 1 seminary, 15 male religious communities and 30 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1952, p. 366). The diocese was created by a bull of Pius IV on 22 May 1563; in the years from 1818 to 1832 the see of S. C. was vacant; on 20 May 1939, Pope Pius XII, with the apostolic constitution Quo provinciarum, elevated it to a metropolitan see, assigning to it as suffragans the dioceses of Chillán, Puerto Montt, Punta Arenas, San Carlos de Ancud, Temuco and Valdivia. In the diocese there are many communities of Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, Capuchins, Jesuits, Salesians, Redemptorists and just as many female communities, which run various colleges. There is also the conciliar Seminary.

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BIBL.: Eubel, IV, p. 158; V, p. 167; AAS, 31 (1939), pp. 338-40; F. M. Rudge, Conception, in Cath. Enc., IV, p. 190; anon., Conception, in Enc. Eur. Am., XIV, p. 926.

Enrico Josi

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