Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IX, 1952 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Oruro, Diocese of

ORURO, DIOCESI DI

By Enrico Josi

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ORURO, Diocese of. - City and diocese in Bolivia.

The diocese extends over 50 sq km in the civil province of the same name, with a population of 180,000 inhabitants, of whom 179,500 are Catholics. It has 25 parishes served by 17 diocesan priests and 11 regulars; it has a seminary, 3 male religious communities and 5 female ones (Ann. Pont., 1952, p. 303). The diocese was created by Pope Pius XI with the apostolic constitution Praedecessoribus nostris of 11 Nov. 1924 by dismemberment of the archdiocese of Plata, which on the same date took the name of Sucre, and of which it became a suffragan; Pius XII, with the apostolic constitution Ad spirituale bonum of 18 June 1943, placed O. under the ecclesiastical province of La Paz.

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BIBL.: AAS, 17 (1925), pp. 301-303; 35 (1943), pp. 388-90.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), col. 390.

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Josi, Enrico. “Oruro, diocesi di.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 390. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/oruro-diocesi-di.

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Josi, Enrico. “Oruro, diocesi di.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 390. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/oruro-diocesi-di.

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@incollection{ec9_oruro_diocesi_di,
  author    = {Josi, Enrico},
  title     = {Oruro, diocesi di},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {390},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/oruro-diocesi-di}
}

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