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Archdiocese of Cusco Archidioecesis Cuschensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Peru |
Statistics | |
Area | 23,807 km2 (9,192 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2014) 1,594,000 1,538,000 (90.6%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Cathedral | Catedral Basílica de la Virgen de la Asunción |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Richard Daniel Alarcon Urrutia |
Bishops emeritus | Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez |
Website | |
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cusco (Latin: Cuschen(sis)) is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese with see in the city and old Inca imperial capital of Cusco, in Peru.[1][2]
Its Cathedral archiepiscopal see is the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin. It also has a Marian Minor basilica: Basílica Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes.
Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and the following suffragan sees, all in Peru :
(all Roman Rite)
^José Calixto Orihuela Valderrama, O.E.S.A. (1819-1821), appointed Bishop here