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Apostolic Vicariate of Camiri

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Parishes
  
24

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Bolivia

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
104,000 km²

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Metropolitan
  
Immediately subject to the Holy See

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 144,000 120,000 (83.3%)

Established
  
22 May 1919 (97 years ago)

The Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Camiri (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Pandoënsis) is an apostolic vicariate located in the city of Camiri in Bolivia.

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History

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 Blessed John Paul II gave it its present name in 2003.

Leadership

  • Ippolito Ulivelli, O.F.M. † (13 August 1919 - 27 October 1922) Died
  • César Angel Vigiani, O.F.M. † (21 January 1924 - 23 January 1950) Resigned
  • Cesar Francesco Benedetti, O.F.M. † (8 February 1951 - 18 December 1972) Resigned
  • Giovanni Décimo Pellegrini, O.F.M. † (18 December 1972 - 31 October 1992) Died
  • Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, O.F.M. † (17 November 1993 - 15 July 2009) Resigned
  • Francisco Focardi Mazzocchi, O.F.M. (15 July 2009 – Present)

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