Suffragan diocese Huancavelica, Peru
Diocese of Huancavelica
Huancavelicen(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
The city of Huancavélica, within Peru's ecclesiastical province of Ayacucho, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huancavelica (Latin: Huancavelicensis).