Diocese of Moyobamba
Moyobamben(sis)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Moyobamba, Peru
Moyobamba is a territorial prelature in the San Martín region of the Peruvian Amazon, established in 1948 and entrusted by the Holy See to the Archdiocese of Toledo, Spain. Its ordinary is Bishop Rafael Alfonso Escudero López-Brea. Note: this jurisdiction is a territorial prelature, not a diocese.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 March 1948
- Latin
- Moyobamben(sis)
- Patron
- Saint James the Apostle (Santiago Apóstol)
- Annuario code
- 001000284
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 553,785
- Population
- 692,232
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 80.0%
- Priests
- 47
- Catholics per priest
- 11,783
- Extent
- 45,775 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 12
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
- Rafael Escudero López-Brea
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 Santiago Apóstol stands in Moyobamba, 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
- Territorial Prelature of HuamachucoHuamachuco
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Moyobamba, the Territorial Prelature of Moyobamba (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Moyobambensis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Trujillo in Peru.
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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.