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Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo

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Metropolitan
  
Piura

Cathedral
  
Catedral Santa María

Bishop
  
Robert Francis Prevost

Country
  
Peru

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Pope
  
Francis

Area
  
18,226 km²

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2006) 1,218,000 1,115,000 (91.5%)

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Piura

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo (Latin: Chiclayen(sis)) is a Latin Catholic suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Piura in Peru's northwestern Lambayeque region.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Santa María in the city of Chiclayo.

History

  • Established on 17 December 1956 as Diocese of Chiclayo on territory split off from the Diocese of Cajamarca and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Trujillo

    • Episcopal incumbents

    (all Roman rite)

  • Bishop Daniel Figueroa Villón (1956.12.17 – 1967.01.30), previously Titular Bishop of Parnassus & Auxiliary Bishop of Arequipa (Peru) (1945.04.12 – 1946.09.22), Bishop of Huancayo (Peru) (1946.09.22 – 1956.12.17)
  • Auxiliary Bishop Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira (1961.04.30 – 1968.04.26), Titular Bishop of Nilopolis (1961.04.30 – 1978.01.10), Bishop-Prelate of Yauyos (Peru) (1968.04.26 – 1996.03.02), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Arequipa (1996.03.02 – 2003.11.29)
  • Bishop Ignacio María de Orbegozo y Goicoechea (1968.04.26 – 1998.05.04), previously Bishop-Prelate of Yauyos (1957.04.12 – 1968.04.26), Titular Bishop of Ariassus (1963.10.29 – 1968.04.26)
  • Bishop Jesús Moliné Labarta (1998.05.04 – 2014.11.03), previously Coadjutor Bishop of Chiclayo (1997.02.08 – 1998.05.04)
  • Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (Appointed Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo and Titular Bishop of Sufar by Pope Francis on 2014.11.03; ordained Bishop, 2014.12.12; named Ordinary -residential Bishop, no longer Administrator- of the Diocese by Pope Francis from 2015.09.26; previously Prior General of the Augustinian Order 2001-2013 and 1998-2001, Prior Provincial of the Augustinian Province of Chicago which covers all of Illinois- Our Mother of Good Counsel, in the Archdiocese of Chicago)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo Wikipedia
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