Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa
Pucallpaën(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Pucallpa, Peru
Latin rite apostolic vicariate serving the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon, erected 2 March 1956 from the suppressed Apostolic Vicariate of Ucayali. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Pucallpa.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2 March 1956
- Latin
- Pucallpaën(sis)
- Patron
- Imaculada Conceição
- Annuario code
- 001000438
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 431,000
- Population
- 538,000
- Catholic share
- 80.1%
- Priests
- 37
- Catholics per priest
- 11,649
- Extent
- 52,168 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.3
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Augusto Martin Quijano Rodriguez, S.D.B.
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
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion), Pucallpa stands in Pucallpa, 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
Immediately exempt to the Holy See and outside any ecclesiastical province, the Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Pucallpaënsis) is a Latin Church jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Peru. Its episcopal see is Pucallpa, in Coronel Portillo Province, the capital of the wider Ucayali region in Peru's inland Amazon rainforest. The vicariate's cathedral, the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción, is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Vicariato Apostólico, Jirón Atahualpa 728, apdo. 33, Pucallpa [Coronel Portillo], Ucayali, Perú
- Telephone
- [61]57.52.16
- [email protected]
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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].