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Rubén Vargas Ugarte (October 22, 1886 – February 14, 1975) was a
jesuit priest and
Peruvian
Peruvians ( es, peruanos) are the citizens of Peru. There were Andean and coastal ancient civilizations like Caral, which inhabited what is now Peruvian territory for several millennia before the Spanish conquest of Peru, Spanish conquest in th ...
historian. He was the third president of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and was ordained a
priest
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in the
Society of Jesus
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in 1921.
He was also the Director of the National Library of Peru.
Works
*General History of Peru. Edition 12 Vol. Milla Batres, Lima 1971–1984. The first five volumes are devoted to the times of the Viceroyalty and Emancipation, and the other to the Republic until 1980. The last volume (11 º to 12 º) the completed historian Margarita Guerra.
*Church History of Peru. 5 Vol Imp of Aldecoa, 1953–1962. This story only reaches to the late nineteenth century.
*Dictionary of Artificers Colonial Lima, 1937-1944
*Life of Santa Rosa de Santa María. Lima, 1945.
*The Viceregal Peru. Editor Peruvian Typography. Lima, 1962
*History of the Society of Jesus in Peru. 4 Vol Imp of Aldecoa, Burgos 1963–1965. It covers the period from the arrival of the *Jesuits and their expulsion in 1767.
*History of Santo Cristo de los Milagros, Printing Sanmartí, 3ra.Edición Lima 1966.
*The Real Convictorio Carolino and their two luminaries. Editor Carlos Milla Batres, Lima, 1970
*General history of the Pacific War. Edit Milla Batres, Lima 1979
See also
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Roman Catholicism in Peru
The Catholic Church in Peru is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the curia in Rome, and the Peruvian Episcopal Conference.
Catholics compose an estimated 74% of Peru's population. It has produced ...
References
Clergy from Lima
20th-century Peruvian historians
Peruvian male writers
20th-century Peruvian Jesuits
1886 births
1975 deaths
Members of the Mexican Academy of Language
Historians of Peru
20th-century male writers
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