Eugenio Coter (born July 11, 1957) is a

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in the

Apostolic Vicariate of Pando The Vicariate Apostolic of Pando ( la, Apostolicus Vicariatus Pandoënsis) is a Latin Church missionary ecclesiastical territory or apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in Bolivia. Its cathedra is located in the episcopal see of Riberalta. ...

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Diocesan service in Italy and Bolivia

He was born in 1957 in Gazzaniga, a village in the

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(

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). He was ordained a

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in the

Diocese of Bergamo The Diocese of Bergamo ( la, Dioecesis Bergomensis; it, Diocesi di Bergamo; lmo, Diocesi de Bergum) is a see of the Catholic Church in Italy, and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Milan.Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...

, he was sent ''fidei donum'' priest in Bolivia in 1991. Serving the Archdiocese of Cochabamba he was parochial vicar in Sacaba and Villa Tunari, and then parish priest in Condebamba of Cochabamba (from 1996 to 2000). For the Archdiocese of Cochabamba he was also member and president of the Foundation "San Lucas", legal representative of the "Celim" NGO of the diocese of Bergamo in Bolivia, member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council. Since 2000 he has been Episcopal Delegate for the Pastoral Social-Caritas of Cochabamba, and since 2012 spiritual director of the Archdiocesan Major Seminary "San Luis" of Cochabamba. He is also president of the Bolivian Blood Donors' Association (ABDS).

Episcopate

On February 2, 2013, he was elected Titular Bishop of Tibiuca and Vicar Apostolic of Pando. On April 24, 2013, he was consecrated in the Cathedral Church of

Riberalta Riberalta is a town in the Beni Department in northern Bolivia, situated where the Madre de Dios River joins the Beni River. Riberalta is on the south (south east) bank of the Beni River. As the capital of the province of Vaca Diez, the city ...

by the bishops Luis Morgan Casey, vicar apostolic emeritus of Pando, cardinal

Julio Terrazas Sandoval Julio Terrazas Sandoval (March 7, 1936 – December 9, 2015) was a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the Roman Catholic Church. Biography Born in Vallegrande, Bolivia, Terr ...

, archbishop of

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, and Tito Solari Capellari, archbishop of

Cochabamba Cochabamba ( ay, Quchapampa; qu, Quchapampa) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and the fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 63 ...

. In November, 2015, Coter was appointed President of Caritas Bolivia.http://www.iglesiaviva.net/2015/11/17/aires-nuevos-en-los-servicios-de-la-conferencia-episcopal/ (spanish)

References

External links

Profile at ''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coter, Eugenio 1957 births Italian Roman Catholic titular bishops Italian Roman Catholic bishops in South America 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Bolivia Living people Roman Catholic bishops of Pando