Territorial Prelature of Moyobamba
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The Territorial Prelature of Moyobamba is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature located in the city of Moyobamba
in the Ecclesiastical province
of Trujillo in Peru.
Moyobamba
Moyobamba is the capital city of the San Martín Region in northern Peru. Called "Santiago of eight valleys of Moyobamba" or "Maynas capital". There are 70,000 inhabitants, according to the 2009 census. Some 3,500 species of orchids are native to the area, which has led to the city's nickname of...
in the Ecclesiastical province
Ecclesiastical Province
An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a secular province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian churches, especially in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Communion...
of Trujillo in Peru.
History
- March 7, 1948: Established as Territorial Prelature of Moyobamba from the Diocese of Chachapoyas
Leadership
- Prelates of Moyobamba (Roman rite)
- Bishop Rafael Alfonso Escudero López-Brea (July 21, 2007 – Present)
- Bishop José Ramón Santos Iztueta Mendizábal, C.P. (June 6, 2000 – July 21, 2007)
- Bishop Venancio Celestino Orbe Uriarte, C.P. (August 25, 1967 – June 6, 2000)
- Bishop Martin Fulgencio Elorza Legaristi, C.P. (January 15, 1949 – December 30, 1966)