Territorial Prelature of Aiquile, Bolivia 🇧🇴

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature

Name: Aiquile / Aiquilen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Cochabamba

Neighbouring Dioceses: Potosí (↙), Cochabamba (↖), Santa Cruz de la Sierra (→), Sucre (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

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History

1961.12.11: Established as Territorial Prelature of Aiquile / Aiquilen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Cochabamba and became suffragan of Sucre)
1975.07.30: Became suffragan of Cochabamba

Contact Info

Address: Casilla 93, Aiquile, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Phone: (04)434.30.60

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2009.03.25 – ...):

Bishop Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. (62)

Ordinaries

Prelates of Aiquile (Roman Rite)

Bishop Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. (62)
(2009.03.25 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of Aiquile (Bolivia)

Dominus evangelizare pauperibus misit me

Born:	1963.06.01 (Mizque, Bolivia)
Ordained Priest:	1990.12.27
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.03.24

Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Aiquile (Bolivia) (2006.12.29 – 2009.03.25)

Bishop-Prelate of Aiquile (Bolivia) (2009.03.25 – ...)

Bishop Adalberto Arturo Rosat, O.F.M.
(1986.11.22 – 2009.03.25)

En el nombre di Cristo Jesús nuestra esperanza

Born:	1934.01.22 (Clès, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1958.07.13
Consecrated Bishop:	1987.02.01
Died:	2015.01.31 († 81)

Bishop-Prelate of Aiquile (Bolivia) (1986.11.22 – 2009.03.25)

Bishop Jacinto Eccher, O.F.M.
(1961.12.16 – 1986.11.22)

Born:	1912.04.19 (Castagnè San Vito, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1937.06.27
Consecrated Bishop:	1962.04.01
Died:	1997.01.10 († 84)

Titular Bishop of Garriana (1961.12.11 – 1977.11.07)

Bishop-Prelate of Aiquile (Bolivia) (1961.12.16 – 1986.11.22)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate: Bishop Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. (62) (2006.12.29 – 2009.03.25)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de San Pedro Virgen de la Candelaria, Aiquile, Cochabamba

Potosí (↙), Cochabamba (↖), Santa Cruz de la Sierra (→), Sucre (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 23,325 km²

Population: 380,890 Catholics (89.8% of 424,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 14 parishes, 3 missions

Personnel: 20 priests (18 diocesan, 2 religious), 67 religious (3 brothers, 64 sisters), 2 seminarians