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Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa

Pucallpaën(sis)

Latin rite apostolic vicariate serving the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon, erected 2 March 1956 from the suppressed Apostolic Vicariate of Ucayali. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Pucallpa.

The see

Rank
Apostolic vicariate
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
2 March 1956
Latin
Pucallpaën(sis)
Patron
Imaculada Conceição
Annuario code
001000438

The see in figures

Catholics
431,000
Population
538,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
80.1%
Priests
37
Catholics per priest
11,649
Extent
52,168 km²
Catholics per km²
8.3

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

Vicar Apostolic
Augusto Martin Quijano Rodriguez, S.D.B.

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 the Immaculate Conception (Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion), Pucallpa stands in Pucallpa, 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.

History

Immediately exempt to the Holy See and outside any ecclesiastical province, the Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Pucallpaënsis) is a Latin Church jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Peru. Its episcopal see is Pucallpa, in Coronel Portillo Province, the capital of the wider Ucayali region in Peru's inland Amazon rainforest. The vicariate's cathedral, the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción, is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Vicariato Apostólico, Jirón Atahualpa 728, apdo. 33, Pucallpa [Coronel Portillo], Ucayali, Perú
Telephone
[61]57.52.16

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Sources

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.