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Suffragan territorial prelature Huamachuco, Peru

Territorial Prelature of Huamachuco

Huamaciucan(us)

Latin rite territorial prelature in the Andes of northern Peru, erected 4 December 1961 from the Archdiocese of Trujillo. It is a suffragan of Trujillo, seated in the city of Huamachuco.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Catedral de San Agustín y la Virgen de la Alta Gracia, in Huamachuco, Peru.

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Established
1961
Catholics
149,500
Priests
22
Territory
7,918 km²

Parishes and churches

15 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Pascual Benjamin Rivera Montoya, T.O.R.

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The cathedral

Catedral de San Agustín y la Virgen de la Alta Gracia stands in Huamachuco, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Seated in the city of Huamachuco, this Roman Catholic territorial prelature (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Huamaciucanus) lies within Peru's ecclesiastical province of Trujillo.