Apostolic vicariate Pucallpa, Peru
Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa
Pucallpaën(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1956
- Catholics
- 431,000
- Priests
- 37
- Territory
- 52,168 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
- Augusto Martin Quijano Rodriguez, S.D.B.
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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.
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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.