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Suffragan diocese Ica, Peru

Diocese of Ica

Icen(sis)

Latin rite diocese on Peru's southern coast, erected 10 August 1946 from the Archdiocese of Lima. It is a suffragan of Lima, seated at St. Jerome Cathedral (Catedral San Jeronimo) in Ica.

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Esri
The address the register holds for St. Jerome Cathedral, in Ica, Peru.

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Established
1946
Catholics
735,000
Priests
49
Territory
21,305 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
Hector Eduardo Vera Colona
Born
29 January 1939
Birthplace
Puebla de Alfindén

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The cathedral

St. Jerome Cathedral stands in Ica, 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 Peruvian city of Ica, in the ecclesiastical province of Lima, is the seat of this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Icen(sis)).