Apostolic Vicariate of Camiri
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CountryBolivia
Area104,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
- (as of 2010)
- 144,000
- 120,000 (83.3%)
Apostolic Vicariate of Camiri Apostolicus Vicariatus Cuevensis Vicariato Apostólico de Camiri | |
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 Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi | |
| Location | |
| Country | Bolivia |
| Metropolitan | Immediately exempt to the Holy See |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 104,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi) |
Population
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| Parishes | 24 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 22 May 1919 (106 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St Francis of Assisi in Camiri |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Apostolic Vicar | Francisco Focardi Mazzocchi |
| Map | |
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The Vicariate Apostolic of Camiri (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Pandoënsis) is a Latin Church missionary ecclesiastical territory or apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in Bolivia. Its cathedra is found in the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi in the episcopal see of Camiri.
On 22 May 1919 Pope Benedict XV established the Vicariate Apostolic of Chaco from the Diocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The name of the vicariate has subsequently been changed twice. Pope Pius XII changed the name to the Vicariate Apostolic of Cuevo in 1951 and John Paul II gave it its present name in 2003.[1][2]
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