Diocese of Chulucanas
Chulucanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Chulucanas, Peru
The Diocese of Chulucanas in the Piura region of Peru was established as a territorial prelature in 1964 and elevated to a diocese in 1988. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Piura and is led by Bishop Cristóbal Bernardo Mejía Corral.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1964
- Latin
- Chulucanen(sis)
- Patron
- Holy Family of Nazareth
- Annuario code
- 001001150
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 435,000
- Population
- 485,000
- Catholic share
- 89.7%
- Priests
- 51
- Catholics per priest
- 8,529
- Extent
- 12,498 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 35
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
- Cristóbal Bernardo Mejía Corral
- Born
- 4 December 1954
- Birthplace
- Ancash
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 de la Sagrada Familia stands in Chulucanas, 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 ChachapoyasChachapoyas
- Diocese of ChiclayoChiclayo
- Archdiocese of PiuraPiura
- Territorial Prelature of ChotaChota
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Located in the city of Chulucanas, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Chulucanen(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Piura in Peru.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle Cuzco 381, Chulucanas, Depto. de Piura, Perú
- Telephone
- [73]37.85.69
- [email protected]
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].