Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo

Diocese of Chiclayo Dioecesis Chiclayensis
Cathedral of St. Mary
Location
Country	Peru
Metropolitan	Piura
Statistics
Area	18,226 km2 (7,037 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 1,218,000 1,115,000 (91.5%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	Catedral Santa María
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	vacant
Bishops emeritus	Jesús Moliné Labarte Robert Francis Prevost

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo (

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Santa María in the city of Chiclayo.

History

The Diocese of Chiclayo was established on 17 December 1956 as the Diocese of Chiclayo on territory split off from the

• Bishop
  Huancayo
  (Peru) (22 September 1946 – 17 December 1956)
  • Yauyos (Peru) (26 April 1968 – 2 March 1996), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Arequipa
    (2 March 1996 – 29 November 2003)
• Bishop
  Titular Bishop of Ariassus
  (29 October 1963 – 26 April 1968)
• Bishop
  Coadjutor Bishop
  of Chiclayo (8 February 1997 – 4 May 1998)
• Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A. (12 December 2014 – 30 January 2023)
  • Apostolic Administrator
    from 3 November 2014

Coadjutor bishop

• Jesús Moliné Labarte (1997-1998)

Auxiliary bishop

• Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira (1961-1968), appointed Prelate of Yauyos

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Marco Antonio Cortez Lara, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Tacna y Moquegua in 2005
• Héctor Eduardo Vera Colona, appointed Bishop of Ica in 2007

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Peru

References

Sources and external links

• GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Diocese website Archived 7 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine

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