The Territorial Prelature of Corocoro ( la, Praelatura Territorialis Corocorensis) is a
territorial prelature
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located in the city of
Coro Coro in the
Ecclesiastical province
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of
La Paz in Bolivia.
History
* December 25, 1949: Established as Territorial Prelature of Corocoro from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of La Paz
Prelates of Corocoro
# Ubaldo Evaristo Cibrián Fernández,
C.P. (1953–1965)
# Jesús Agustín López de Lama,
C.P. (1966–1991)
#
Toribio Ticona Porco
Toribio Ticona Porco (; born 25 April 1937) is a Bolivian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Prelate of the Territorial Prelature of Corocoro from 1992 to 2012 after serving as Auxiliary Bishop of Potosí from 1986 to 1992. Pope Francis made ...
(1992–2012), elevated to
Cardinal in 2018
# Percy Lorenzo Galvan Flores (2013–2020), appointed as
Archbishop of La Paz in May 2020
# Pascual Limachi Ortiz (2021–present)
See also
*
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 ...
References
External links
GCatholic.org
Roman Catholic dioceses in Bolivia
Christian organizations established in 1949
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
Corocoro, Territorial Prelature of
Territorial prelatures
1949 establishments in Bolivia
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