Apostolic Vicariate of Requena
Requenaën(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Requena, Peru
Latin rite apostolic vicariate in Peru's Loreto Department, erected 2 March 1956 from the suppressed Apostolic Vicariate of Ucayali and entrusted to the Franciscans. Immediately subject to the Holy See, it is seated at the Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua in Requena. Vicar Apostolic Alejandro Wiesse Leon, O.F.M., was appointed 4 June 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2 March 1956
- Latin
- Requenaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000447
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 128,000
- Population
- 145,000
- Catholic share
- 88.3%
- Priests
- 7
- Catholics per priest
- 18,286
- Extent
- 80,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.6
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
- Alejandro Adolfo Wiesse Leon, O.F.M.
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 St. Anthony of Padua (Catedral San Antonio de Padua), Requena stands in Requena, 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
Requena in Peru is the episcopal see of a Latin Church apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church, the Apostolic Vicariate of Requena, known in Latin as Vicariatus Apostolicus Requenaënsis.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Curia Vicarial, Calle Los Mártires 281, Requena, vía Iquitos, Perú
- Telephone
- 964.903.044
- [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].