Juan Antonio Falcón Explained

Type:Bishop
Juan Antonio Falcón
Bishop of Cuzco
Church:Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Cuzco
Successor:José Gregorio Castro
Birth Date:12 June 1838
Birth Place:Lima, North Peru
Death Place:Cuzco, Peru
Buried:Cathedral of Cuzco
Religion:Roman Catholicism

Juan Antonio Falcón Iturrizaga (1838–1909) was a Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cusco from 1892 and 1909.

Biography

He was born in Lima on June 12, 1838. He was ordained as a deacon in June 1862 and as a priest in December of that same year by the Archbishop of Lima, . On October 25, 1892, he was selected to be bishop of Cuzco, a see that had been vacant since the death of Bishop in 1883. The selection was confirmed on January 19, 1893, and on June 29 of that year he was ordained bishop by the Archbishop of Amasea . He occupied the episcopal chair of Cuzco for 18 years until his death on May 1, 1909.[1] He is buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of Cuzco.[2]

During his administration, the support he provided to the stands out, an academic organisation founded in 1897 whose purpose was to carry out geographical studies of the department of Cuzco to provide them to the Peruvian government.[3] Likewise, he signed the agreement for the arrival of the Salesian Congregation to Cuzco in 1905 for the founding of the .[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bishop Juan Antonio Falcón Iturrizaga † . Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  2. Book: Vargas, Isaías . Monografía de la Santa Basílica Catedral del Cuzco . Garcilaso . 1956 . 133 . es .
  3. Boletín del Centro Científico del Cusco . Centro Científico del Cusco . 2 . 7 . 1898.
  4. Web site: Historia de la casa salesiana de Cusco . Salesianos.pe.