Diocese of Huánuco
Huanucen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Huánuco, Peru
The Diocese of Huánuco in central Peru was erected in 1865. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lima and has been led by Bishop Pedro Alberto Bustamante López since 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 March 1865
- Latin
- Huanucen(sis)
- Patron
- Señor de Burgos (Lord of Burgos)
- Annuario code
- 001001620
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 740,523
- Population
- 822,804
- Catholic share
- 90.0%
- Priests
- 57
- Catholics per priest
- 12,992
- Extent
- 44,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 17
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
- Pedro Alberto Bustamante López
- Born
- 9 January 1965
- Birthplace
- Cotaparaco
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 del Señor de Burgos stands in Huánuco, 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 Lima
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Lima.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of CallaoCallao
- Diocese of CarabaylloCarabayllo
- Diocese of ChosicaChosica
- Diocese of HuachoHuacho
- Diocese of IcaIca
- Archdiocese of LimaLima
- Diocese of LurínLurín
- Territorial Prelature of YauyosYauyos
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Situated in Peru, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huánuco has its seat in the city of Huánuco and belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Huancayo.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Jr. Dámaso Beraún 741, Huánuco, Perú
- Telephone
- [62]51.19.85
- [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].