The Diocese of San Juan de Calama ( la, Sancti Ioannis Calamensis) is a

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...

located in the city of Calama in the

Ecclesiastical province An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United State ...

Antofagasta Antofagasta () is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669. After the Spanish American wars ...

in Chile.

History

* 21 July 1965: Established as the Territorial Prelature of Calama from Diocese of Antofagasta and

Diocese of Iquique The Roman Catholic Diocese of Iquique ( la, Iquiquen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Iquique, Chile, in the ecclesiastical province of Antofagasta. History * 1880: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Tarapacá from the Diocese of Ar ...

* 20 February 2010: Promoted as Diocese of San Juan de Calama

Leadership, in reverse chronological order

Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

s of San Juan Bautista de Calama (Roman rite), below ** Bishop Óscar Hernán Blanco Martínez (2016.03.21 – 2022.07.13), appointed Bishop of Punta Arenas ** Bishop Guillermo Patricio Vera Soto (2010.02.20 – 2014.02.22), appointed Bishop of Iquique * Territorial Prelates of Calama (Roman rite), below ** Bishop Guillermo Patricio Vera Soto (2003.04.10 – 2010.02.20) ** Bishop Cristián Contreras Molina,

O. de M. The Royal, Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives ( la, Ordo Beatae Mariae de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum, abbreviated O. de M.), also known as the Mercedarians, is a Catholic mendicant order es ...

(1992.06.11 – 2002.07.19), appointed Bishop of San Felipe ** Bishop Juan Bautista Herrada Armijo, O. de M. (1982.03.05 – 1991.11.30) ** Bishop Juan Bautista Herrada Armijo, O. de M. (Apostolic Administrator 1976.02.26 – 1982.03.05) ** Archbishop

Carlos Oviedo Cavada Carlos Oviedo Cavada, O. de M. (19 January 1927 – 7 December 1998) was a Chilean Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Santiago de Chile from 1990 to 1998, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1994. Biography Cavad ...

, O. de M. (Apostolic Administrator 1974–1976); future

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** Bishop Juan Luis Ysern de Arce (Apostolic Administrator 1972.05.20 – 1974.06.02) ** Archbishop

Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos (10 October 1917 – 20 February 1998) was a Chilean bishop. After his episcopal consecration, he headed the dioceses of Copiapó -at the time, a territorial prelature- (1956–57), Antofagasta (1957–74), Cala ...

(Apostolic Administrator 1970.04 – 1970.06.02) ** Bishop

Orozimbo Fuenzalida y Fuenzalida Orozimbo Fuenzalida y Fuenzalida (May 22, 1925 – March 27, 2013) was the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of San Bernardo, Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the south ...

(1968.03.13 – 1970.02.26), appointed Bishop of Los Angeles ** Archbishop

(Apostolic Administrator 1965.07.21 – 1968.05.19)

Sources

GCatholic.org

Diocese website
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