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Diocese of Puno

Punien(sis)

Latin rite diocese on the Peruvian altiplano beside Lake Titicaca, erected 7 October 1861 from the Diocese of Cusco. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Arequipa, seated at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Charles Borromeo (San Carlos Borromeo) in Puno.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
7 October 1861
Latin
Punien(sis)
Annuario code
001002683

The see in figures

Catholics
515,182
Population
606,096
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
85.0%
Priests
53
Catholics per priest
9,720
Extent
19,475 km²
Catholics per km²
26

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 Pedro Carrion Pavlich
Born
25 May 1950
Birthplace
Junín

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 Basilica of St. Charles Borromeo stands in Puno, 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 Arequipa

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Arequipa.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

The city of Puno in Peru is the seat of the Diocese of Puno (Latin: Puniensis), a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church within the ecclesiastical province of Arequipa.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Obispado, Jr. Conde de Lemos 226, Puno 21001, Perú
Telephone
975.344.418

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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Sources

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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.