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Territorial Prelature of

Aiquile

Bolivia Bolivia

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature Territorial Prelature

Name: Aiquile / Aiquilen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Cochabamba

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Special Churches

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

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2009.03.25 – ...):Bishop Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. (59)Bishop Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. (59)

Ordinaries

Prelates of Aiquile (Roman Rite)

Bishop Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. (59)Bishop Jorge Herbas Balderrama, O.F.M. (59)
(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 (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 (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

Contact Info

Address: Casilla 93, Aiquile, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Phone: (04)434.30.60

Website:

Statistics

Area: 23,325 km²

Population: 369,800 Catholics (89.9% of 411,180 total) (2020)

Statistics: 14 parishes, 3 missions, 16 priests (14 diocesan, 2 religious), 72 lay religious (3 brothers, 69 sisters), 1 seminarian (2020)

History

Last updated on 2023.01.27

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