(all
Roman rite Chileans)
Ordinaries ;
Ecclesiastical Superior of Antofagasta • Father Florencio Eduardo Fontecilla Sánchez (1883 – 1886.12.23), next Bishop of mother see
La Serena (Chile) (1890.06.26 – death 1909.03.03) ;
Apostolic Vicars of Antofagasta •
Bishop-elect Luís Silva Lezaeta first term (1887.05.15 – 1896) • Fr. Felipe Salas Errázuriz (1896.03.04 – 1905) • Luís Silva Lezaeta again (1904.11.04 – 1928.02.03
see below),
Titular Bishop of
Olena (1912.01.05 – 1928.02.03) ;
Suffragan Bishops of Antofagasta •
Luís Silva Lezaeta (
see above 1928.02.03 – death 1929.05.21) •
Alfredo Cifuentes Gómez (1933.12.23 – 1943.06.05), next Metropolitan Archbishop of
La Serena (Chile) (1943.06.05 – 1967.03.10),
Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of
Apostolic Administration of Copiapó (Chile) (1947.03.19 – 1948.06.17), emeritate as
Titular Archbishop of
Thapsus (1967.03.10 – retired 1970.12.02), died 1989 :BIOs TO ELABORATE •
Hernán Frías Hurtado (1945.01.13 – 1957.05.24) • Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos (1957.08.20 – 1967.06.28
see below) ;
Metropolitan Archbishops of Antofagasta •
Francisco de Borja Valenzuela Ríos (
see above 1967.06.28 – 1974.03.25), next Archbishop (personal title) of San Felipe (1974.03.25 - 1993.04.16) •
Carlos Oviedo Cavada,
O. de M. (1974.03.25 – 1990.03.30), next Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (1990.03.30 - 1998.02.16), elevated to
Cardinal in 1994; died 7 December 1998 •
Patricio Infante Alfonso (1990.12.12 – 2004.11.26) • Pablo Lizama Riquelme (2004.11.26 – 8 June 2017) • Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina (8 June 2017 – ...)
Coadjutor bishop •
Pablo Lizama Riquelme (2004)
Auxiliary bishops •
Arturo Mery Beckdorf (1941-1944, Apostolic Administrator 1943–1944), appointed Bishop of Valdivia •
Juan Luis Ysern de Arce (1972-1974), appointed Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud •
Juan Bautista Herrada Armijo, O. de M. (1991-1997) == See also ==