Diocese of Chimbote
Cimbotien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Chimbote, Peru
The Diocese of Chimbote is a Latin Church diocese in the Ancash region of Peru, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Trujillo. It is led by Bishop Angel Ernesto Zapata Bances, O.C.D., appointed in May 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 November 1962
- Latin
- Cimbotien(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Annuario code
- 001001135
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 570,000
- Population
- 655,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 87.0%
- Priests
- 66
- Catholics per priest
- 8,636
- Extent
- 23,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 24
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Ángel Ernesto Zapata Bances
- Born
- 3 August 1959
- Birthplace
- Lima
- Institute
- CARMELITANI SCALZI
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmen and Saint Peter stands in Chimbote, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Trujillo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Trujillo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TrujilloTrujillo
- Diocese of CajamarcaCajamarca
- Diocese of HuarazHuaraz
- Diocese of HuaríHuarí
- Diocese of MoyobambaMoyobamba
- Territorial Prelature of HuamachucoHuamachuco
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Chimbote, a city in Peru's ecclesiastical province of Trujillo, is the seat of this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Cimbotien(sis)).
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The see's own website · Wikipedia
Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.