Apostolic Vicariate of Yurimaguas
Yurimaguaën(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Yurimaguas, Peru
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.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 November 1960
- Latin
- Yurimaguaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000468
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 216,000
- Population
- 252,000
- Catholic share
- 85.7%
- Extent
- 70,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.1
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
- Jesus Maria Aristin Seco, C.P.
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 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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Curia Vicarial, c/Bolívar 208, Yurimaguas, Loreto, Perú
- Telephone
- [65]35.21.28
- [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].