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The Immaculate Conception Cathedral ( es, Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción) Also Concepción Cathedral Is the name that receives a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church that is located in the city of Concepción in Santa Cruz Department,
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. The complex includes the cathedral the bell tower and the parochial house that were built by the
Jesuits The Society of Jesus ( la, Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuits (; la, Iesuitæ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...
between 1753 and 1756. It was declared a national monument of Bolivia in 1950 and a
World Heritage Site A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for h ...
by Unesco in 1990.


Administration

The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and is the main church of the Apostolic Vicariate of Ñuflo de Chávez (''Apostolicus Vicariatus Niuflensis'') that was created in 1951 through the bull "Ne sacri Pastores" of
Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII ( it, Pio XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (; 2 March 18769 October 1958), was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958. Before his e ...
. It is under the pastoral responsibility of Bishop Bonifacio Antonio Reimann Panic.


See also

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Roman Catholicism in Bolivia The Catholic Church in Bolivia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Catholicism was introduced in the 1530s and the first diocese was established in 1552. Evangelization among the Indians ...
* Immaculate Conception Cathedral * List of Jesuit sites


References

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