Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cusco explained

Jurisdiction:	Archdiocese
Cusco
Latin:	Archidioecesis Cuschensis
Country:	Peru
Rite:	Latin Rite
Cathedral:	Catedral Basílica de la Virgen de la Asunción
Area Km2:	23,807
Population:	1,594,000
Population As Of:	2014
Catholics:	1,538,000
Catholics Percent:	90.6
Bishop:	Richard Daniel Alarcon Urrutia
Bishop Title:	Archbishop
Emeritus Bishops:	Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez

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.

History

• Established on 5 September 1536 as Diocese of Cusco, on vast South American territory split off from the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sevilla, in colonial mother country Spain
• It lost territories repeatedly, to establish dioceses: on 1541.05.14 Lima, on 1547.07.01 Paraguay, on 1552.06.27 La Plata (Argentina), on 1609.07.20 Ayacucho, on 1861.10.07 Puno and on 1900.01.05 the Apostolic Prefecture of San Domingo de Urubamba.
• Promoted on 23 May 1943 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cusco
• Lost territories to establish on 1958.04.28 the Diocese of Abancay and on 1959.01.10 the Territorial Prelature of Sicuani, both as its suffragan
• It enjoyed a papal visit by Pope John Paul II in February 1985.

Province

Its ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own Archdiocese and the following suffragan sees, all in Peru :

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Abancay
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Sicuani
• Territorial Prelature of Chuquibambilla

Episcopal ordinaries

(all Roman Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Cusco

• Vicente Valverde Alvarez, Dominican Order (O.P.) (8 Jan 1537 – 31 Oct 1541 Died)^[3]
• Juan Solano, O.P. (29 Feb 1544 – 1562 Resigned)^[4]
• Francisco Ramirez (bishop) (6 July 1562 – 1564 Died)^[5]
• Mateo Pinello (19 Jan 1565 – 1569 Died)^[6]
• Sebastián Lartaún (4 Sep 1570 – 9 Oct 1583 Died)^[7]
• Gregorio de Montalvo Olivera, O.P. (16 Nov 1587 – 11 Dec 1592 Died), previously Bishop of Yucatán (Mexico) (1580.12.15 – 1587.11.16)^[8]
• Antonio de Raya Navarrete (6 June 1594 – 28 July 1606 Died)
• Fernando Mendoza González (12 Jan 1609 – 1618 Died)
• Lorenzo Pérez de Grado (18 March 1619 – 4 Sep 1627 Died), previously Bishop of Paraguay (Paraguay) (1615.09.16 – 1619.03.18)^[9]
• Archbishop-Bishop Fernando de Vera y Zuñiga, Augustinian Order (O.E.S.A.) (16 Jul 1629 – 9 Nov 1638 Died),^[10] previously Titular Bishop of Bugia (1614.02.17 – 1628.11.13) & Auxiliary Bishop of Badajoz (Spain) (1614.02.17 – 1628.11.13), Metropolitan Archbishop of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) (1628.11.13 – 1629.07.16)
  • Diego Montoya Mendoza (16 July 1640 Appointed – Did Not Take Effect as he died two days before appointment)
• Juan Alonso y Ocón (31 Aug 1643 – 17 July 1651); previously Bishop of Yucatán (Mexico) (1638.06.14 – 1643.08.31); later Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas) (Bolivia) (1651.07.17 – 1656.06.29)
• Pedro de Ortega y Sotomayor (27 Nov 1651 – 1658 Died), previously Bishop of Trujillo (Peru) (1645 – 1647), Bishop of Arequipa (Peru) (1647 – 1651.11.27)^[11]
• Agustín Muñoz Sandoval (17 Nov 1659 – April 1661 Died)
• Bernardo de Izaguirre de los Reyes (31 July 1662 – 15 July 1669), previously Bishop of Panamá (Panama) (1654.05.18 – 1660); later Archbishop of La Plata (not possessed 1669.07.15 – death 1670.03.17)
• (15 Dec 1670 – 26 Sep 1699 Died)
• Juan González de Santiago (9 Feb 1705 – 12 Dec 1707 Died)
• uncanonical: (1712.05.09 – 1714 without papal mandate)
• , Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (13 Jan 1716 – 9 Oct 1724 Died), previously Bishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina) (1712.06.23 – 1716.01.14)
• Bernardo de Serreda y Villate, Carmelite Order (O. Carm.) (19 Dec 1725 – 2 March 1733 Died), previously Bishop of Panamá (Panama) (1720 – 1725.12.19)
• (5 May 1734 – 2 Oct 1740 Died), previously Bishop of Córdoba (Argentina) ([1723.09.19] 1723.11.22 – 1730.07.24), Bishop of Santiago (Chile) (1730.07.24 – 1734.05.05)
• (18 April 1742 – 1 April 1747 Died), previously Titular Bishop of Draso (1724.02.14 – 1731.12.17) & Auxiliary Bishop of Lima (Peru) (1724.02.14 – 1731.12.17), Bishop of Panamá (Panama) (1731.12.17 – 1741.07.20)
• (20 Jan 1749 – 22 Feb 1762 Died), previously Bishop of Panamá (Panama) (1742 – 1749.01.20)
• Juan Manuel Jerónimo de Romaní y Carrillo (26 Sep 1763 – 15 Sep 1768 Died), previously Bishop of Panamá (Panama) (1758.03.13 – 1763.09.26)
• (12 Dec 1770 – 28 Oct 1776 Died)
• (28 Sep 1778 – 3 Aug 1789) previously Titular Bishop of Tricomia (1770.03.12 – 1771.06.17) & Auxiliary Bishop of Arequipa (Peru) ([1769.10.15] 1770.03.12 – 1771.06.17), Bishop of Córdoba (Argentina) (1771.06.17 – 1778.09.28); later Archbishop of Granada (1789.08.03 – death 1811.07.24)
• (14 Dec 1789 – 31 March 1806), later Archbishop of Lima (1806.03.31 – death 1823.09.06)
• (31 March 1806 – 9 Feb 1819 Died)
• , O.E.S.A. (27 June 1821 – 25 Aug 1838 Resigned), previously Titular Bishop of Calama (1819.03.29 – 1821.06.27) & Auxiliary Bishop of Cusco (Peru) (1819.03.29 – 1821.06.27)
• (17 Sep 1838 – 18 Aug 1854 Died)
• Julián Ochoa Campos (27 March 1865 – 17 Sep 1875 Resigned)
• (17 Sep 1875 – 23 March 1880 Resigned) previously Titular Bishop of Tiberiopolis (1860.03.23 – 1875.09.17) & Auxiliary Bishop of Archbishop of Lima (Peru) (1860.03.23 – 1875.09.17); emeritate as Titular Bishop of Arad (1880.08.20 – 1881)
• Juan Antonio Falcón Iturrizaga (19 Jan 1893 – 1 May 1909 Died)
• José Gregorio Castro Miranda, O.F.M. (21 March 1910 – 13 Nov 1917 Resigned), emeritate as Titular Bishop of Clazomenæ (1917.11.13 – 1924.01.30)
• Pedro Pascuál Francesco Farfán de los Godos (19 April 1918 – 18 Sep 1933), previously Bishop of Huaraz (Peru) (1907.03.05 – 1918.04.19); later Archbishop of Lima (Peru) (1933.09.18 – 1945.09.17)
• (13 June 1935 – 23 May 1943 see below)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Cusco

• Felipe Santiago Hermosa y Sarmiento (see above 23 May 1943 – 17 Dec 1956 Resigned), later Archbishop Military Vicar of Peru (Peru) (1956.12.17 – 1967), emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Berœa (1956.12.17 – 1971.01.20)
• , Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) (17 Dec 1956 – 6 Dec 1965), previously Bishop of Huancavelica (Peru) (1949.01.13 – 1954.02.07), Titular Bishop of Nisyrus (1954.02.07 – 1956.12.17) & Military Vicar of Peru (Peru) (1954.02.07 – 1956.12.17); later Archbishop of Trujillo (1965.12.06 – resigned 1976)
• , Jesuits (S.J.) (14 Feb 1966 – 14 Jan 1975), later Archbishop-Bishop of Callao (Peru) (1975.01.14 – retired 1995.08.17), also President of Episcopal Conference of Peru (1988 – 1991)
• (14 Jan 1975 – 8 June 1982 Died), previously Bishop of Callao (Peru) (1971.09.20 – 1975.01.14)
• Alcides Mendoza Castro (5 Oct 1983 – 29 Nov 2003 Retired); previously Titular Bishop of Metræ (1958.04.28 – 1962.12.05) & Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay (Peru) (1958.04.28 – 1962.12.05) succeeding as Bishop of Abancay (1962.12.05 – 1967.08.12), Titular Archbishop of Pederodiana (1967.08.12 – 1983.10.05) & Archbishop Military Vicar of Peru (Peru) (1967.08.12 – 1983.10.05)
• Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez (29 Nov 2003 – 28 Oct 2014 Retired); previously Titular Bishop of Castro (1983.08.18 – 1997.03.15) & Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay (Peru) (1983.08.18 – 1986.10.18) & Auxiliary Bishop of Cusco (Peru) (1986.10.18 – 1991.12.04), Auxiliary Bishop of Yauyos (Peru) (1991.12.04 – 1997.03.15), Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Yauyos (Peru) (1997.03.15 – 2003.11.29)
• (28 Oct 2014 – ...), previously Bishop of Tarma (Peru) (2001.06.13 – 2014.10.28)

Other affiliated bishops

Auxiliary bishops

^José Calixto Orihuela Valderrama, O.E.S.A. (1819-1821), appointed Bishop here

• Elías Prado Tello (1963-1972), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga
• Severo Aparicio Quispe, O. de M. (1978-1999)
• Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez (1986-1991), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Yauyos (later returned here as Archbishop)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Francisco José Marán, appointed Bishop of Concepción, Chile in 1779
• Fidel María Cosío y Medina, appointed Bishop of Puno in 1923
• Ciro Quispe López, appointed Prelate of Juli in 2018

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Peru

Sources and external links

• GCatholic.org, with incumbent bio links
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Diocesan website (in Spanish)

Notes and References

1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dcuzc.html "Archdiocese of Cuzco"
2. http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/cuzc0.htm "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cusco"
3. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bvalal.html Catholic Hierarchy: "Bishop Vicente Valverde Alvarez, O.P."
4. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsolan.html Catholic Hierarchy: "Bishop Juan Solano, O.P."
5. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bramfr.html "Bishop Francisco Ramírez"
6. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpinel.html "Bishop Mateo Pinello"
7. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/blart.html "Bishop Sebastián Lartaún"
8. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmontalvo.html "Bishop Gregorio de Montalvo Olivera, O.P."
9. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bperg.html "Bishop Lorenzo Pérez de Grado"
10. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bverz.html Catholic Hierarchy: "Archbishop Fernando de Vera y Zuñiga, O.S.A."
11. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/borts.html "Bishop Pedro de Ortega y Sotomayor"