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

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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 ...

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. Its

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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 Chicl ...

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. On 17 April 1963, some of its territory was lost to form the Territorial Prelature of Chota.

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 Huancayo (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 Ignacio María de Orbegozo y Goicoechea (26 April 1968 – 4 May 1998), previously

(12 April 1957 – 26 April 1968),

of Ariassus (29 October 1963 – 26 April 1968) * Bishop Jesús Moliné Labarte (4 May 1998 – 3 November 2014), previously

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of Chiclayo (8 February 1997 – 4 May 1998) * Bishop

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, O.S.A. (12 December 2014 – 30 January 2023) **

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from 3 November 2014

Coadjutor bishop

* Jesús Moliné Labarte (1997-1998)

Auxiliary bishop

* Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira (1961-1968), appointed Prelate of Yauyos

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

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