Diocese of Talca Dioecesis Talcensis Diócesis de Talca | |
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 Cathedral of St. Augustine | |
| Location | |
| Country | Chile |
| Ecclesiastical province | Santiago de Chile |
| Metropolitan | Santiago de Chile |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 17,246 km2 (6,659 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2014) 641,270 457,953 (71.4 %[1]%) |
| Information | |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 18 October 1925 (98 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St Augustine in Talca |
| Patron saint | St Augustine of Hippo |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Galo Fernández Villaseca |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Celestino Aós Braco, OFM Cap |
| Bishops emeritus | Horacio del Carmen Valenzuela Abarca |
| Website | |
| www.diocesisdetalca.cl | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Talca, (in Latin: Dioecesis Talcensis), is a suffragan diocese of the archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. Its current bishop, Galo Fernández Villaseca, was appointed on 20 March 2021.[2] The diocesan cathedral is in the city of Talca.
The dioceses of Talca, of Rancagua and of San Felipe were erected by Pope Pius XI on 18 October 1925 by means of the Bulla "Notabiliter Aucto".[citation needed]
The diocese lies in the Maule Region of Chile and covers a territory of 17,000 km². It is comprised by the province of Curicó and by eight municipalities (comunas) of the province of Talca (the parishes of the municipalities of Empedrado and Constitución are jurisdictionally attached to the neighboring diocese of Linares, from an ecclesiastical point of view). The diocese is divided into 45 parishes (as of April 2015), grouped in 5 pastoral zones.[1]
