The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo ( la, Chiclayen(sis)) is a Latin Catholic

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in the

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Piura Piura is a city in northwestern Peru located in the Sechura Desert on the Piura River. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province. Its population was 484,475 as of 2017. It was here that Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro fou ...

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's northwestern

Lambayeque region Lambayeque () is a department and region in northwestern Peru known for its rich Moche and Chimú historical past. The region's name originates from the ancient pre-Inca civilization of the '' Lambayeque''. It is the second-smallest departmen ...

. Its

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episcopal see is Catedral Santa María in the city of

Chiclayo Chiclayo (; qu, Chiklayu) is the principal city of the Lambayeque region in northern Peru. It is located inland from the Pacific coast and from the nation's capital, Lima. Founded by Spanish explorers as "Santa María de los Valles de Chiclay ...

History

The Diocese of Chiclayo was established on 17 December 1956 as the Diocese of Chiclayo on territory split off from the Diocese of Cajamarca and

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Trujillo The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trujillo ( la, Truxillen(sis)) is an archdiocese located in the city of Trujillo in Peru.Territorial Prelature of Chota The Territorial Prelature of Chota ( la, Praelatura Territorialis Chotensis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature, an administrative division not within a diocese, located in the city of Chota in the Ecclesiastical province of Piura Pi ...

Bishops

* Bishop Daniel Figueroa Villón (17 December 1956 – 30 January 1967), previously

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& Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Peru) (12 April 1945 – 22 September 1946), Bishop of

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(Peru) (22 September 1946 – 17 December 1956) ** Auxiliary Bishop Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira (30 April 1961 – 26 April 1968), Titular Bishop of

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(30 April 1961 – 10 January 1978),

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(Peru) (26 April 1968 – 2 March 1996), later Metropolitan Archbishop of

(2 March 1996 – 29 November 2003) * Bishop

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(26 April 1968 – 4 May 1998), previously

(12 April 1957 – 26 April 1968),

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(29 October 1963 – 26 April 1968) * Bishop

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(4 May 1998 – 3 November 2014), previously

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of Chiclayo (8 February 1997 – 4 May 1998) * Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A. (12 December 2014 – 30 January 2023) **

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from 3 November 2014

Coadjutor bishop

(1997-1998)

Auxiliary bishop

Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira (12 November 1925, Arequipa, Peru – 28 September 2009, Lima, Peru) was the Peruvian Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Arequipa. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest with Opus Dei on 4 August 1957. He se ...

(1961-1968), appointed Prelate of Yauyos

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Marco Antonio Cortez Lara Marco may refer to: People * Marco (given name), people with the given name Marco * Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor * Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin * Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish ...

, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Tacna y Moquegua in 2005 * Héctor Eduardo Vera Colona, appointed Bishop of Ica in 2007

References

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links

Diocese website
Roman Catholic dioceses in Peru Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Piura Christian organizations established in 1956 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century Chiclayo {{Peru-RC-diocese-stub