Territorial Prelature of Huamachuco
Huamaciucan(us)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Huamachuco, Peru
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.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 4 December 1961
- Latin
- Huamaciucan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000267
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 149,500
- Population
- 230,000
- Catholic share
- 65.0%
- Priests
- 22
- Catholics per priest
- 6,795
- Extent
- 7,918 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 19
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
- Pascual Benjamin Rivera Montoya, T.O.R.
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
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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Trujillo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Trujillo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TrujilloTrujillo
- Diocese of CajamarcaCajamarca
- Diocese of ChimboteChimbote
- Diocese of HuarazHuaraz
- Diocese of HuaríHuarí
- Diocese of MoyobambaMoyobamba
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Huamachuco, this Roman Catholic territorial prelature (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Huamaciucanus) lies within Peru's ecclesiastical province of Trujillo.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Casa Prelaticia, Pasaje Mons. Damián Nicolau Roig 101, Huamachuco, Sánchez Carrión, Dpto. La Libertad, Perú
- Telephone
- e fax [44]44.12.14
- [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].