Apostolic vicariate Yurimaguas, Peru
Apostolic Vicariate of Yurimaguas
Yurimaguaën(sis)
Latin Church
The Apostolic Vicariate of Yurimaguas is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction in the Peruvian Amazon, immediately subject to the Holy See. Erected in 1921 as the Prefecture Apostolic of San Gabriel de la Dolorosa del Maranon from the Vicariate of San Leon del Amazonas, it was elevated to a vicariate apostolic in 1936 and took the name Yurimaguas in 1960. Its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Snows in Yurimaguas.
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- Established
- 1921
- Catholics
- 216,000
- Priests
- 27
- Territory
- 70,000 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
- Jesus Maria Aristin Seco, C.P.
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The cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Snows (Catedral Virgen de las Nieves), Yurimaguas stands in Yurimaguas, 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
Seated in the episcopal see of Yurimaguas in Peru, the Vicariate Apostolic of Yurimaguas (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Yurimaguaënsis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church, an apostolic vicariate.