Diocese of Tacna and Moquegua Dioecesis Tacnensis et Moqueguensis Tacna y Moquegua | |
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Location | |
Country | Peru |
Ecclesiastical province | Arequipa |
Statistics | |
Area | 30,539 km2 (11,791 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members) | (as of 2010) 625,000 556,000 (89%) |
Parishes | 38 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 18 December 1944 (76 years ago) |
Cathedral | Catedral Nuestra Señora del Rosario |
Co-cathedral | Co-Catedral Santa Catalina |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Marco Antonio Cortez Lara |
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On 18 December 1944 Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of Tacna from the territory of the Archdiocese of Arequipa. John Paul II renamed it the Diocese of Tacna and Moquegua on 11 July 1992. [1] [2]
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