Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiclayo

Diocese of Chiclayo Dioecesis Chiclayensis
Cathedral of St. Mary
Location
Country	Peru
Metropolitan	Piura
Statistics
Area	18,226 km² (7,037 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 1,218,000 1,115,000 (91.5%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	Catedral Santa María
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Robert Francis Prevost

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.

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

Bishop Daniel Figueroa Villón (1956.12.17 – 1967.01.30), previously Titular Bishop of Parnassus & Auxiliary Bishop of Arequipa (Peru) (1945.04.12 – 1946.09.22), Bishop of Huancayo (Peru) (1946.09.22 – 1956.12.17)
- Auxiliary Bishop Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira (1961.04.30 – 1968.04.26), Titular Bishop of Nilopolis (1961.04.30 – 1978.01.10), Bishop-Prelate of Yauyos (Peru) (1968.04.26 – 1996.03.02), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Arequipa (1996.03.02 – 2003.11.29)
Bishop Ignacio María de Orbegozo y Goicoechea (1968.04.26 – 1998.05.04), previously Bishop-Prelate of Yauyos (1957.04.12 – 1968.04.26), Titular Bishop of Ariassus (1963.10.29 – 1968.04.26)
Bishop Jesús Moliné Labarta (1998.05.04 – 2014.11.03), previously Coadjutor Bishop of Chiclayo (1997.02.08 – 1998.05.04)
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 2014.11.03; ordained Bishop, 2014.12.12; named Ordinary -residential Bishop, no longer Administrator- of the Diocese by Pope Francis from 2015.09.26; previously Prior General of the Augustinian Order 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]

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Province of Lima	Archdiocese of Lima Diocese of Callao Diocese of Carabayllo Diocese of Chosica Diocese of Huacho Diocese of Ica Diocese of Lurín Prelature of Yauyos
Province of Piura	Archdiocese of Piura Diocese of Chachapoyas Diocese of Chiclayo Diocese of Chulucanas Prelature of Chota
Province of Trujillo	Archdiocese of Trujillo Diocese of Cajamarca Diocese of Chimbote Diocese of Huaraz Diocese of Huarí Prelature of Huamachuco Prelature of Moyobamba
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