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Apostolic vicariate Iquitos, Peru

Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos

Iquitosen(sis)

Latin rite apostolic vicariate in the Peruvian Amazon, established 5 February 1900 as the Apostolic Prefecture of San Leon del Amazonas from territory of the Diocese of Chachapoyas, promoted to apostolic vicariate on 22 February 1921 and renamed Iquitos on 1 August 1945. Its seat is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Iquitos.

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The address the register holds for Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Catedral San Juan Bautista), Iquitos, in Iquitos, Peru.

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Established
1900
Catholics
770,200
Priests
33
Territory
100,042 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

Vicar Apostolic
Miguel Angel Cadenas Cardo, O.S.A.

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Catedral San Juan Bautista), Iquitos stands in Iquitos, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Originally the Apostolic Prefecture of San León del Amazonas, the Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Iquitosensis) is a Latin Church pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction in Amazonian northern Peru. Exempt immediately to the Holy See, it belongs to no ecclesiastical province. Its cathedral, the Catedral San Juan Bautista (St. John the Baptist), stands in the episcopal see of Iquitos.

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