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Suffragan diocese Huancavelica, Peru

Diocese of Huancavelica

Huancavelicen(sis)

Latin rite diocese in the high Andes of central Peru, erected 18 December 1944 by Pope Pius XII from the Diocese of Ayacucho. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ayacucho, seated at the Cathedral of St. Anthony (San Antonio) in Huancavelica.

On the map

Esri
Huancavelica, Peru, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1944
Catholics
406,709
Priests
49
Territory
21,078 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Carlos Alberto Salcedo Ojeda, O.M.I.

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Anthony stands in Huancavelica, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

The city of Huancavélica, within Peru's ecclesiastical province of Ayacucho, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huancavelica (Latin: Huancavelicensis).