Roman Catholic Diocese of Linares

Coordinates: 35°50′44″S 71°35′57″W / 35.8456°S 71.5992°W / -35.8456; -71.5992
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Not to be confused with the Diocese of Linares in Mexico.
Diocese of Linares

Dioecesis Linarensis

Diócesis de Linares
Cathedral of St. Ambrose
Location
CountryChile
Ecclesiastical provinceSantiago de Chile
Statistics
Area15,110 km2 (5,830 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2004)
361,384
271,038 (75%)
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established18 October 1925 (98 years ago)
CathedralCathedral of St Ambrose in Linares
Patron saintSt Ambrose
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopTomislav Koljatic Maroevic
Metropolitan ArchbishopCelestino Aós Braco, OFM Cap
Website
obispadodelinares.cl

The Diocese of Linares (also known as the Diocese of San Ambrosio de Linares;

papal bull
Notabiliter Aucto.

The Diocese of Linares is a

rural inhabitants. Numerous chapels have been raised particularly in rural areas. The total number of chapels in the diocese exceeds 450.[citation needed
]

Brief history of the diocese

comuna, Linares Province
, Chile. The building dates from Chile's colonial period. The parish belongs to the Diocese of Linares.

In 1963, the territory of the Diocese of Linares expanded to include the

Saint Ambrose of Milan
.

Beginnings of Catholicism in the region

Maule river. As a result of the successful campaigns in southern Chile, the Diocese of Imperial was created on March 22, 1563. Following the Arauco War Bishop Don Reginaldo de Lizárraga went to the King Felipe III to obtain from the Pope the annexation of his Bishopric
to the one of Santiago, to which the Supreme Pontiff acceded provisionally. This situation persisted from 1609 until 1623.

On February 18, 1585, the third Bishop of

Santiago in his detailed report to King Felipe II mentions the missions of "Longomilla and Purapel", "Chanco and Loanco" taken care of by the presbítero Francisco de Maestanza, with a salary of three hundred and eighty pesos in gold
and food.

The Doctrinas of Cauquenes and Putagán

When the

Our Lady of the Mercedes de José de Manso of Tutuvén, now Cauquenes
) on May 9, 1742.

Cathedral of "San Ambrosio", Linares

The Cathedral of San Ambrosio de Linares

The Cathedral Church of

Santiago de Chile
.

Mgr. Subercaseaux gave a great initial impulse to the construction of the Linares Cathedral, which has been characterized as "the plastic expression of his refined artistic culture". Mgr. Subercaseaux, a dynamic and enterprising man, was not deterred by the shortage of resources available for the great work that had to be done. In his travels abroad, he was untiring to ask for greater resources for his diocese, which badly required some material aid that would help to finance the cathedral works and additional priests. In several countries (Italy, Germany, the United States, France, the Netherlands) Mgr. Subercaseaux appealed to the local Catholics in their own languages, urging them to contribute to the progress of his far-away diocese.

The cathedral was built according to the model of the famous

Romanesque style and begun in the 4th century. The cathedral apse is remarkable for the outstanding mosaic work made by the Italian-born artist Giulio Di Girolamo. This mosaic work is one of the most important of its sort in South America
. On the 18 October 2006 the remains of Giulio Di Girolamo's wife, Elvira, brought from Italy, were buried in the Cathedral together with those of her husband, who had died in 1998 and had been buried in the Cathedral years before.

Diocesan statistics

The Diocese of Linares has an area of 15,111 km2 and a

Catholic (2002 Census
).

Deaneries, parishes and priests of the diocese

There are 33

Rural Linares
.

Parishes of the diocese

Urban Linares and rural Linares deaneries

  • El Sagrario (Cathedral), Linares
  • Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Linares
  • Inmaculado Corazón de María, Linares
  • María Auxiliadora, Linares
  • Jesús Obrero, Linares
  • Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Linares
  • María Peregrina, Linares
  • San Antonio de Padua, Linares
  • Santos Chilenos, Linares
  • Nuestra Señora de la Buena Esperanza, Panimávida
  • San Miguel Arcángel, Colbún
  • De la Santa Cruz, Yerbas Buenas

San Javier Deanery

  • San Francisco Javier, San Javier
  • Santísima Virgen de la Merced, San Javier
  • Santa Rosa, Melozal
  • Del Niño Jesús,
    Villa Alegre
  • San Francisco,
    Huerta de Maule
  • San Juan, Orilla de Maule

Parral Deanery

  • San José de Parral, Parral
  • San Francisco de Parral, Parral
  • San Sebastián de Los Cuarteles, Parral
  • San Lorenzo, Longaví
  • San Ramón, Retiro

Constitución Deanery

Cauquenes Deanery

Priests of the diocese

Francisco Lavín, Juvenal Pereira, René González, Erasmo Salazar, Plácido Grove, Hernán González, Rolf Schnitzler, Gabriel Lacaux, Jaime Vallet, Ramón Iturra, Luis Alarcón, Germán Cáceres, Silvio Jara, Lorenzo Solari, José Ulloa, Luis Retamal, Benjamín Retamales, Francisco Hormazábal, José Prado, Gonzálo Aravena, Luis Fuentealba, Raúl Moris, Alejandro Quiroz, Waldo Alfaro, Mario Agurto.

Ordinaries

Bishops of Linares

  • Miguel León Prado (1925–1934)
  • Archbishop of La Serena
  • Francisco Javier Valdivia Pinedo (1940–1941)
  • Roberto Moreira Martínez (1941–1958)
  • Augusto Osvaldo Salinas Fuenzalida (1958–1976)
  • Carlos Marcio Camus Larenas
    (1976–2003)
  • Tomislav Koljatic Maroevic (2003–present)

Notes

  1. ^ The site where the evangelical proclamation took place was called a doctrina and the person in charge of a doctrina was a doctrinero. In general, the terms missionary and doctrinero had the same meaning

External links

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