Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua

Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua Dioecesis Tacnensis et Moqueguensis
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary
Location
Country	Peru
Ecclesiastical province	Arequipa
Statistics
Area	30,539 km2 (11,791 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 625,000 556,000 (89%)
Parishes	38
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	18 December 1944 (72 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Co-cathedral	Co-Catedral Santa Catalina
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Marco Antonio Cortez Lara
Emeritus Bishops	José Hugo Garaycoa Hawkins

Co-Cathedral of St. Catherine

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua (Latin: Dioecesis Tacnensis et Moqueguensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Arequipa in southern Peru, comprising the lay administrative regions Tacna Region and Moquegua region.

History

On 18 December 1944 Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of Tacna from the territory of the Archdiocese of Arequipa. Blessed John Paul II renamed it the Diocese of Tacna y Moquegua on 11 July 1992.^[1][2]

Ordinaries

• Carlos Alberto Arce Masías † (6 Jul 1945 - 17 Dec 1956) Appointed, Bishop of Huánuco
• Alfonso Zaplana Bellizza † (17 Dec 1957 - 28 Apr 1973)
• Oscar Rolando Cantuarias Pastor † (5 Oct 1973 - 9 Sep 1981) Appointed, Archbishop of Piura
• Oscar Julio Alzamora Revoredo, S. M. † (16 Dec 1982 - 13 Feb 1991)
• José Hugo Garaycoa Hawkins (6 Jun 1991 - 1 Sep 2006)
• Marco Antonio Cortez Lara (1 Sep 2006 - present)

References