Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima

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Archdiocese of Lima Archidioecesis Limana
Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist
Location
Country	Peru
Ecclesiastical province	Lima
Statistics
Area	639 km2 (247 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2013) 3,582,000 3,224,000 (90%)
Parishes	113
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	14 May 1541 (480 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Basílica San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio
Auxiliary Bishops	Ricardo Augusto Rodríguez Álvarez, Guillermo Teodoro Elías Millares
Bishops emeritus	Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne Adriano Tomasi Travaglia
Map
Website
www.arzobispadodelima.org

The Archbishop's Palace of Lima is the seat of the Archdiocese of Lima

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima (Latin: Archidioecesis Limana) is part of the Roman Catholic Church in Peru which enjoys full communion with the Holy See. The Archdiocese was founded as the Diocese of Lima on 14 May 1541. The diocese was raised to the level of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Paul III on 12 February 1546. One of its archbishops was the saint Torribio Mogrovejo.^[1][2][3]

The suffragan dioceses are: Callao, Carabayllo, Chosica, Huacho, Ica, Lurín, and (Territorial Prelature) Yauyos. From 1999 to 2019 the Archbishop of Lima was Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, made Cardinal in 2001. The Archbishop's Palace of Lima is the headquarters of the archdiocese.

Ordinaries[]

Diocese of Lima[]

Erected: 14 May 1541

• Jerónimo de Loayza, O.P. (13 May 1541 – 25 October 1575)

Archdiocese of Lima[]

Elevated: 12 February 1546

• Diego Gómez de Lamadrid, O.SS.T. (27 Mar 1577 – 13 June 1578) Appointed, Archbishop (Personal Title) of Badajoz^[4]
• St. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo (16 May 1579 – 23 May 1606) Died^[5]
• Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero (19 Nov 1607 – 12 January 1622) Died^[6]
• Gonzalo del Campo (López de Ocampo) (2 Oct 1623 – 15 October 1627) Died^[7]
• Hernando de Arias y Ugarte (1630 – 27 January 1638) Died^[8]
• Pedro de Villagómez Vivanco (16 Jul 1640 – 12 May 1671) Died^[9]
• Juan de Almoguera, O.SS.T. (6 May 1674 – 2 March 1676) Died^[10]
• Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros (14 Jun 1677 – 28 June 1708) Died^[11]
• (21 May 1714 – 21 January 1722) Died
• Diego Morcillo Rubio de Suñón de Robledo, O.SS.T. (12 May 1723 – 12 March 1730) Died^[12]
• , C.R. (1732 – 28 April 1739) Died
• José Antonio Gutiérrez y Ceballos (11 Nov 1740 – 16 January 1745) Died
• Agustín Rodríguez Delgado (14 Jun 1746 – 18 December 1746) Died
• Pedro Antonio de Barroeta Angel (18 Sep 1748 – 19 December 1757) Appointed, Archbishop of Granada
• Diego del Corro (13 Mar 1758 – 28 January 1761) Died
• Diego Antonio de Parada (25 Jan 1762 – 23 April 1779) Died
• Juan Domingo González de la Reguera (18 Sep 1780 – 8 March 1805) Died
• Bartolomé María de las Heras Navarro (31 Mar 1806 – 6 September 1823) Died
• Jorge Benavente Macoaga (23 Jun 1834 – 10 March 1839) Died
• Francisco de Sales Arrieta Ortiz (13 Jul 1840 – 4 May 1843) Died
• Francisco Javier Luna-Pizarro y Pacheco de Chávez (24 Apr 1845 – 4 February 1855) Died
• Jos�� Manuel Pasquel Losada (28 Sep 1855 – 15 October 1857) Died
• José Sebastian Goyeneche y Barreda (26 Sep 1859 – 19 February 1872) Died
• Manuel Teodoro del Valle Seoane (29 Aug 1872 – 19 November 1872) Resigned
• Francisco de Asis Orueta y Castrillón (21 Mar 1873 – ?) Died
• Manuel Antonio Bandini Mazuelos (1889–1898) Died
• Manuel Tovar y Chamorro (22 Aug 1898 – 25 May 1907) Died
• Pedro Manuel García Naranjó (19 Dec 1907 – 10 September 1917) Died
• Emilio Juan Francisco Lissón y Chávez, C.M. (25 Feb 1918 – 3 March 1931) Resigned
• Pedro Pascuál Francesco Farfán de los Godos (18 Sep 1933 – 17 September 1945) Died
• Cardinal Juan Guevara (16 Dec 1945 – 27 November 1954) Died
• Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts, O.F.M. (2 May 1955 – 30 December 1989) Retired
• Cardinal Augusto Vargas Alzamora, S.J. (30 Dec 1989 – 9 January 1999) Retired
• Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (9 Jan 1999 – 25 January 2019) Retired^[13]
• Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio (25 January 2019 – present)^[13]

Other affiliated bishops[]

Coadjutor archbishop[]

• Juan Landázuri Ricketts, O.F.M. (1952–1955); future Cardinal

Auxiliary bishops[]

°, O. de M. (1664–1666), did not take effect

• (1669), did not take effect
• , O.S.A. (1677–1679), appointed Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán), Argentina
• Francisco Cisneros y Mendoza (1702–1724)^[14]
• (1724–1731), appointed Bishop of Panamá
• (1738–1745), appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga)
• (1836–1845), appointed Archbishop here
• (1848–1855), appointed Archbishop here
• , C.O. (1855–1859), appointed Bishop of Trujillo (later returned here as Archbishop)
• (1860–1875), appointed Bishop of Cuzco
• (1865–1883)
• (1879–1889), appointed Archbishop here
• José María Carpenter Aponte (1891–1905)
• (1891–1898), appointed Archbishop here
• (1901–1904)
• (1909–1923)
• , O.F.M. (1917–1924)
• , O.F.M. (1943–1945), appointed Bishop of Huancayo
• , C.M. (1946–1952), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Piura
• (1956–1973)
• José Antonio Dammert Bellido (1958–1962), appointed Bishop of Cajamarca
• (1961–1969)
• Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi, S.J. (1967–1978), appointed Prelate of Chimbote
• , M.S.C. (1970–1990)
• (1973–1990), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Piura
• (1978–2001)
• , S.J. (1980–1993)
• , O.P. (1980–1995)
• (1982–1991), appointed Bishop of Tacna
• Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, O.F.M. (1988–1996), appointed Bishop of Peru, Military
• , S. M. (1991–1999)
• Norbert Klemens Strotmann Hoppe, M.S.C. (1992–1997), appointed Bishop of Chosica
• , S.C.V. (2002–2006), appointed Archbishop of Piura
• (2002–2006), appointed Bishop of Lurín
• , O.F.M. (2002–2019)
• (2009–2012), appointed Bishop of Peru, Military
• (2009–2019), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Arequipa
• (2019-)
• (2019-)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops[]

• , appointed Bishop of Concepción, Chile in 1708
• , appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Arequipa in 1770
• , appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga) in 1815; did not take effect
• , appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga) in 1818
• , appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga) in 1838; did not take effect
• , appointed Bishop of Trujillo in 1853
• , appointed Bishop of Arequipa in 1859
• , appointed Bishop of Puno in 1865
• , appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga) in 1865
• , appointed Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (Guamanga) in 1875
• , appointed Bishop of Trujillo in 1889
• , appointed Bishop of Puno in 1889
• , appointed Bishop of Cuzco in 1893
• , appointed Bishop of Trujillo in 1910
• , appointed Bishop of Peru, Military in 2001
• (priest here, 1989–1996), appointed Bishop of Chulucanas in 2020

References[]

Coordinates: 12°02′48″S 77°01′47″W / 12.0466°S 77.0298°W / -12.0466; -77.0298