Diocese of Huacho
Huachen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Huacho, Peru
Latin rite diocese on Peru's central coast north of Lima, erected 15 May 1958 from the Archdiocese of Lima. It is a suffragan of Lima, seated at the Cathedral of St. Bartholomew (San Bartolome) in Huacho.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 May 1958
- Latin
- Huachen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001615
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 456,000
- Population
- 482,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 94.6%
- Priests
- 64
- Catholics per priest
- 7,125
- Extent
- 14,227 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 32
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
- Antonio Santarsiero Rosa, O.S.I.
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 St. Bartholomew stands in Huacho, 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 ChosicaChosica
- 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.
History
In the ecclesiastical province of Lima, the Peruvian city of Huacho is the seat of this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Huachen(sis)).
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Obispado, Apartado 104, Av. Echenique 200, Huacho, Perú
- Telephone
- [1]239.3011
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.