Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo (Latin: Chiclayen(sis)) is a Latin Catholic suffragan diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Piura in Peru's northwestern Lambayeque region.

Diocese of Chiclayo

Dioecesis Chiclayensis
Cathedral of St. Mary
Location
Country Peru
MetropolitanPiura
Statistics
Area18,226 km2 (7,037 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2006)
1,218,000
1,115,000 (91.5%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
CathedralCatedral Santa María
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopRobert Francis Prevost
Bishops emeritusJesús Moliné Labarte

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Santa María in the city of Chiclayo.

History
  • Established on 17 December 1956 as Diocese of Chiclayo on territory split off from the Diocese of Cajamarca and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Trujillo

Bishops

Episcopal incumbents

(all Roman rite)

  • Bishop Daniel Figueroa Villón (17 December 1956 – 30 January 1967), previously Titular Bishop of Parnassus & Auxiliary Bishop of Arequipa (Peru) (12 April 1945 – 22 September 1946), Bishop of Huancayo (Peru) (22 September 1946 – 17 December 1956)
    • Auxiliary Bishop Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira (30 April 1961 – 26 April 1968), Titular Bishop of Nilopolis (30 April 1961 – 10 January 1978), Bishop-Prelate of Yauyos (Peru) (26 April 1968 – 2 March 1996), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Arequipa (2 March 1996 – 29 November 2003)
  • Bishop Ignacio María de Orbegozo y Goicoechea (26 April 1968 – 4 May 1998), previously Bishop-Prelate of Yauyos (12 April 1957 – 26 April 1968), Titular Bishop of Ariassus (29 October 1963 – 26 April 1968)
  • Bishop Jesús Moliné Labarte (4 May 1998 – 3 November 2014), previously Coadjutor Bishop of Chiclayo (8 February 1997 – 4 May 1998)
  • Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) (Appointed Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo and Titular Bishop of Sufar by Pope Francis on 3 November 2014; ordained Bishop, 12 December 2014; named Ordinary -residential Bishop, no longer Administrator- of the Diocese by Pope Francis from 26 September 2015; previously Prior General of the Augustinian Order in 2001–2013 and 1998–2001, Prior Provincial of the Augustinian Province of Chicago which covers all of Illinois- Our Mother of Good Counsel, in the Archdiocese of Chicago)[1][2]

Coadjutor bishop
  • Jesús Moliné Labarte (1997-1998)

Auxiliary bishop

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
  • Marco Antonio Cortez Lara, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Tacna y Moquegua in 2005
  • Héctor Eduardo Vera Colona, appointed Bishop of Ica in 2007

See also
  • Roman Catholicism in Peru

References
  1. http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2015/09/26/0722/01562.html
  2. http://www.microsofttranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&a=http%3A%2F%2Fpress.vatican.va%2Fcontent%2Fsalastampa%2Fit%2Fbollettino%2Fpubblico%2F2015%2F09%2F26%2F0722%2F01562.html



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