Enciclopedia Cattolica

POTOSÌ IN BOLIVIA, DIOCESI DI

Potosí in Bolivia, Diocese of

Volume IX · p. 1109 · 1952

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

POTOSÍ IN BOLIVIA, Diocese of — Diocese of Bolivia in South America, a suffragan of the archdiocese of Sucre.

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Article illustration
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POTIJ, IPATIJ — Portrait. Painting in the residence of the Jesuits in Vilnius.

It has an area of 116,662 sq. km., with a population of 549,950 inhabitants, of whom 543,800 are Catholics; 47 parishes served by 34 diocesan priests and 18 regular clergy; 3 male and 9 female religious communities (*Ann. Pont.*, 1952, p. 327). The city of P. was erected into a diocese by Pope Pius XI with the apostolic constitution *Praedecessoribus nostris* of 11 November 1924, by separation from the archdiocese of La Plata. — See plate CXXIV.

BIBL.: AAS, 17 (1925), pp. 501-503; anon., s. V. in *Enc. Eur. Am.*, XLVI, pp. 1045-52.