Eugenio Coter

History
Priestly ordination
Ordained by	Giulio Oggioni (Bergamo)
Date	20 June 1981
Place	Bergamo, Italy
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Luis Morgan Casey (Pando Ap. Vic. em.)
Co-consecrators	Julio Card. Terrazas Sandoval CSsR (Santa Cruz de la Sierra); Tito Solari Capellari SDB (Cochabamba)
Date	24 April 2013
Place	Riberalta, Bolivia

Ordination history of; Eugenio Coter
History
Priestly ordination
Ordained by	Giulio Oggioni (Bergamo)
Date	20 June 1981
Place	Bergamo, Italy
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator	Luis Morgan Casey (Pando Ap. Vic. em.)
Co-consecrators	Julio Card. Terrazas Sandoval CSsR (Santa Cruz de la Sierra); Tito Solari Capellari SDB (Cochabamba)
Date	24 April 2013
Place	Riberalta, Bolivia

Eugenio Coter
His Excellency; Eugenio Coter
	Vicar Apostolic of Pando; Titular Bishop of Tibiuca
Diocese	Vicar Apostolic of Pando
Appointed	10 March 1962
Installed	April 24, 2013
Predecessor	Luis Morgan Casey
Other posts	Titular Bishop of Tibiuca
Orders
Ordination	June 20, 1981; by Giulio Oggioni
Consecration	April 24, 2013; by Luis Morgan Casey
Personal details
Born	11 July 1957; Gazzaniga (BG), Italy
Nationality	Italian
Residence	Bishop's House, Riberalta, Bolivia
Motto	Su misericordia llega a sus fieles

Eugenio Coter (born July 11, 1957) is a Roman Catholic bishop in the Apostolic Vicariate of Pando, Bolivia.

Styles of Eugenio Coter

Spoken style	His Excellency
Religious style	Your Excellency

Diocesan service in Italy and Bolivia

He was born in 1957 in Gazzaniga, a village in the province of Bergamo (Italy). He was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Bergamo on June 20, 1981. From 1981 to 1991, Bishop Coter was a priest within the Diocese of Bergamo, serving as associate pastor of Grassobbio and Gandino.

After attending a course at the Missionary Centre (CMU) in Verona, he was sent fidei donum priest in Bolivia in 1991. Serving the Archdiocese of Cochabamba he was parochial vicar in Sacaba and Villa Tunari, and then parish priest in Condebamba of Cochabamba (from 1996 to 2000). For the Archdiocese of Cochabamba he was also member and president of the Foundation "San Lucas", legal representative of the "Celim" NGO of the diocese of Bergamo in Bolivia, member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council.

Since 2000 he has been Episcopal Delegate for the Pastoral Social-Caritas of Cochabamba, and since 2012 spiritual director of the Archdiocesan Major Seminary "San Luis" of Cochabamba. He is also president of the Bolivian Blood Donors' Association (ABDS).

Episcopate

On February 2, 2013, he was elected Titular Bishop of Tibiuca and Vicar Apostolic of Pando. On April 24, 2013, he was consecrated in the Cathedral Church of Riberalta by the bishops Luis Morgan Casey, vicar apostolic emeritus of Pando, cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and Tito Solari Capellari, archbishop of Cochabamba.

In November, 2015, Coter was appointed President of Caritas Bolivia.[1]

References

http://www.iglesiaviva.net/2015/11/17/aires-nuevos-en-los-servicios-de-la-conferencia-episcopal/ Archived November 25, 2015, at the Wayback Machine (spanish)

External links

Profile at Catholic-Hierarchy.org

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[1] ttp://www.iglesiaviva.net/2015/11/17/aires-nuevos-en-los-servicios-de-la-conferencia-episcopal/ Archived November 25, 2015, at the Wayback Machine (spanish)