Diocese of Tarma
| Diocese of Tarma | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Peru |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Huancayo |
| Diocesan bishop | Luis Alberto Barrera Pacheco MCCJ |
| founding | 1958 |
| surface | 13,032 km² |
| Parishes | 18 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Residents | 696,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics | 590,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 ) |
| proportion of | 84.8% |
| Diocesan priest | 19 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 6 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 23,600 |
| Friars | 8 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 28 (31.12.2015 / AP2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Santa Ana |
The diocese of Tarma ( lat. : Dioecesis Tarmensis ) is in the central Peruvian Andes situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Tarma .
history
The diocese of Tarma was established on May 15, 1958 from cessions of territory by the dioceses of Huancayo and Huánuco as Tarma prelature . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Huancayo as a suffragan . On December 21, 1985, the Tarma prelature was elevated to a diocese.
Pilgrimage to the Señor de Muruhuay
A point of attraction that radiates far beyond the diocese is the Señor de Muruhuay shrine in Muruhuay, a small town north of Tarma. The pilgrimage to Señor de Muruhuay on May 3rd of each year is one of the most important religious festivals in Peru. It was declared a “national cultural heritage” in 2017.
Bishops
Prelates of Tarma
- Anton Kühner MCCJ , May 15, 1958-24. July 1980, then Bishop of Huánuco
- Lorenz Unfried MCCJ, September 19, 1980-21. December 1985
Bishops of Tarma
- Lorenz Unfried MCCJ, December 21, 1985-29. November 1988
- Apostolic Administrator : Hubert Unterberger MCCJ, Nov. 29, 1988–3. January 1991
- Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre SM , November 21, 1992-13. June 2001, then Archbishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga
- Richard Daniel Alarcón Urrutia , June 13, 2001–28. October 2014, then Archbishop of Cuzco
- Luis Alberto Barrera Pacheco MCCJ, since October 25, 2016
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Ana Teresa Lecaros-Terry: Los peregrinos del Señor de Muruhuay. Espacio, culto e identidad en los Andes . Diss. Berlin, Free University of Berlin, Berlin 2001, p. 4.
- ↑ Festividad del Señor de Muruhuay it declarada Patrimonio Cultural de la Nacion . In: La República , April 25, 2017, accessed April 18, 2018.