Territorial Prelature of Huamachuco
Huamaciucan(us)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Huamachuco, Peru
Latin rite territorial prelature in the Andes of northern Peru, erected 4 December 1961 from the Archdiocese of Trujillo. It is a suffragan of Trujillo, seated in the city of Huamachuco.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 4 December 1961
- Latin
- Huamaciucan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000267
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 149,500
- Population
- 230,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 65.0%
- Priests
- 22
- Catholics per priest
- 6,795
- Extent
- 7,918 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 19
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
- Pascual Benjamin Rivera Montoya, T.O.R.
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 San Agustín y la Virgen de la Alta Gracia stands in Huamachuco, 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 ChimboteChimbote
- Diocese of HuarazHuaraz
- Diocese of HuaríHuarí
- Diocese of MoyobambaMoyobamba
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Huamachuco, this Roman Catholic territorial prelature (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Huamaciucanus) lies within Peru's ecclesiastical province of Trujillo.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Casa Prelaticia, Pasaje Mons. Damián Nicolau Roig 101, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión, Dpto. La Libertad, Perú
- Telephone and fax
- [44]44.12.14
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.