The Immaculate Conception Cathedral ( es, Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción), also called Puerto Baquerizo Moreno Cathedral, is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the town of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristóbal Island, one of which forms the

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, which administratively is included in the Province of Galápagos in the South American country of

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ' ...

. The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as the seat of the Apostolic Vicariate of Galápagos (''Apostolicus Vicariatus galapagensis'') that was created by

Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the soverei ...

on 15 July 2008 based on the territory of the former prefecture of Galapagos had Pope Pius XII established in 1950. It is under the pastoral responsibility of the apostolic vicar Áureo Patricio Bonilla Bonilla.

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