Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Talca, (in Latin: Dioecesis Talcensis), is a suffragan diocese of the archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. Its current bishop is Mgr. Horacio del Carmen Valenzuela Abarca. The retired (emeritus) bishop is Mgr. Carlos Gonzalez Cruchaga. The diocese was established in Talca, Chile by Pope Pius XI on October 18, 1925 by means of the Bulla "Notabiliter Aucto". The diocese lies in the Maule Region of Chile and covers a territory of 17,000 km . It is comprised by the province of Curico and by eight municipalities (comunas) of the province of Talca (the parishes of the municipalities of Empedrado and Constitucion are jurisdictionally attached to the neighboring diocese of Linares, from an ecclesiastical point of view). The diocese is divided into 42 parishes, grouped in 5 pastoral zones. It is estimated that 78.9% of the diocesan population is Catholic.

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