Diocese of Chosica
Chosican(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Chosica, Peru
The Diocese of Chosica is a Latin Church diocese in the eastern part of Lima, Peru, erected in 1996 from the Archdiocese of Lima. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lima and led by Bishop Jorge Enrique Izaguirre Rafael, C.S.C., who took office in early 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 14 December 1996
- Latin
- Chosican(us)
- Patron
- San Martín de Porres
- Annuario code
- 001001148
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,500,000
- Population
- 1,760,005
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 85.2%
- Priests
- 124
- Catholics per priest
- 12,097
- Extent
- 506 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2,964
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
- Jorge Enrique Izaguirre Rafael
- Born
- 14 January 1968
- Birthplace
- Casma
- Institute
- CONGREGAZIONE DI SANTA CROCE
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
Catedral de Huaycan stands in Chosica, 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 Lima
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lima.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CallaoCallao
- Diocese of CarabaylloCarabayllo
- Diocese of HuachoHuacho
- Diocese of HuánucoHuánuco
- Diocese of IcaIca
- Archdiocese of LimaLima
- Diocese of LurínLurín
- Territorial Prelature of YauyosYauyos
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Obispado, Calle Fray Martín s/n, Lotización 12 y 13, Urb. Residencial "El Descanso", Huaycán - Ate. Vitarte, Lima 03, Perú
- Telephone
- [1]35.94.074
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.