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Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua

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Parishes
  
38

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Peru

Denomination
  
Catholic Church

Area
  
30,539 km²

Bishop
  
Marco Antonio Cortez Lara

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 625,000 556,000 (89%)

Established
  
18 December 1944 (72 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Catedral Nuestra Señora del Rosario

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Arequipa

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua (Latin: Dioecesis Tacnensis et Moqueguensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Arequipa in southern Peru, comprising the lay administrative regions Tacna Region and Moquegua region.

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History

On 18 December 1944 Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of Tacna from the territory of the Archdiocese of Arequipa. Blessed John Paul II renamed it the Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua on 11 July 1992.

Ordinaries

  • Carlos Alberto Arce Masías † (6 Jul 1945 - 17 Dec 1956) Appointed, Bishop of Huánuco
  • Alfonso Zaplana Bellizza † (17 Dec 1957 - 28 Apr 1973)
  • Oscar Rolando Cantuarias Pastor † (5 Oct 1973 - 9 Sep 1981) Appointed, Archbishop of Piura
  • Oscar Julio Alzamora Revoredo, S. M. † (16 Dec 1982 - 13 Feb 1991)
  • José Hugo Garaycoa Hawkins (6 Jun 1991 - 1 Sep 2006)
  • Marco Antonio Cortez Lara (1 Sep 2006 - present)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua Wikipedia
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