Diocese of Chachapoyas
Chachapoyasen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Chachapoyas, Peru
Latin rite diocese in the Amazonas region of northern Peru, erected 28 May 1803 as the Diocese of Maynas from territory of the Diocese of Cuenca, the Archdiocese of Lima and the Diocese of Trujillo, and renamed Chachapoyas on 2 June 1843. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Piura.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1803
- Latin
- Chachapoyasen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001099
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 311,000
- Population
- 343,000
- Catholic share
- 90.7%
- Priests
- 27
- Catholics per priest
- 11,519
- Extent
- 21,659 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 14
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Humberto Tapia Diaz
- Born
- 13 February 1960
- Birthplace
- Querocotillo
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 San Juan Bautista stands in Chachapoyas, 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 Piura
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Piura.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of ChiclayoChiclayo
- Diocese of ChulucanasChulucanas
- Archdiocese of PiuraPiura
- Territorial Prelature of ChotaChota
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Peruvian city of Chachapoyas gives its name to this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Chachapoyasen(sis)), which forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Piura.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Jr. Ayacucho 1008, Chachapoyas, Perú
- Telephone
- [41]79.32.30
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery 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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].