San Carlo (San Carlos) de Ancud, Diocese of
A city and diocese in the Republic of Chile (South America).
The diocese has 99,430 Catholics out of a population of 101,400, spread over a territory of 18,074 sq km and distributed in 22 parishes served by 25 diocesan priests and 6 regular clergy; it has a seminary, 2 male religious communities and 3 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1952, p. 350). The diocese was erected by Gregory XVI with the bull Ubi primum of 27 May 1840 by separation from that of the Most Holy Conception, of which it has been a suffragan since 1939.
Bibl.: Carlos S. Cotapos, S. Carlo de Anud, in Cath. Enc., XIII, p. 426. Gastone Carrère