Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cusco

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, on 1609.07.20 Ayacucho, on 1861.10.07 Puno and on 1900.01.05 the Apostolic Prefecture of San Domingo de Urubamba.
• Between 1546 and 1943 suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lima
• 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

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

  Episcopal ordinaries

• Vicente Valverde Alvarez, Dominican Order
• Juan Solano, O.P.
• Francisco Ramirez
• Mateo Pinello
• Sebastián Lartaún
• Gregorio de Montalvo Olivera, O.P., previously Bishop of Yucatán
• Antonio de Raya Navarrete
• Fernando Mendoza González
• Lorenzo Pérez de Grado, previously Bishop of Paraguay
• Archbishop-Bishop Fernando de Vera y Zuñiga, Augustinian Order , previously Titular Bishop of Bugia & Auxiliary Bishop of Badajoz , Metropolitan Archbishop of Santo Domingo
• * Diego Montoya Mendoza
• Juan Alonso y Ocón ; previously Bishop of Yucatán
• Pedro de Ortega y Sotomayor, previously Bishop of Trujillo , Bishop of Arequipa
• Agustín Muñoz Sandoval
• Bernardo de Izaguirre de los Reyes, previously Bishop of Panamá ; later Archbishop of La Plata
• Juan González de Santiago
• uncanonical:
• , Friars Minor , previously Bishop of Buenos Aires
• Bernardo de Serreda y Villate, Carmelite Order , previously Bishop of Panamá
• , previously Bishop of Córdoba , Bishop of Santiago
• , previously Titular Bishop of Draso & Auxiliary Bishop of Lima , Bishop of Panamá
• , previously Bishop of Panamá
• Juan Manuel Jerónimo de Romaní y Carrillo, previously Bishop of Panamá
• previously Titular Bishop of Tricomia & Auxiliary Bishop of Arequipa , Bishop of Córdoba ; later Archbishop of Granada
• , later Archbishop of Lima
• , O.E.S.A., previously Titular Bishop of Calama & Auxiliary Bishop of Cusco
• Julián Ochoa Campos
• previously Titular Bishop of Tiberiopolis & Auxiliary Bishop of Archbishop of Lima ; emeritate as Titular Bishop of Arad
• Juan Antonio Falcón Iturrizaga
• José Gregorio Castro Miranda, O.F.M., emeritate as Titular Bishop of Clazomenæ
• Pedro Pascuál Francesco Farfán de los Godos, previously Bishop of Huaraz ; later Archbishop of Lima

• Felipe Santiago Hermosa y Sarmiento, later Archbishop Military Vicar of Peru , emeritate as Titular Archbishop of Berœa
• , Redemptorists , previously Bishop of Huancavelica , Titular Bishop of Nisyrus & Military Vicar of Peru ; later Archbishop of Trujillo
• , Jesuits , later Archbishop-Bishop of Callao , also President of Episcopal Conference of Peru
• , previously Bishop of Callao
• Alcides Mendoza Castro ; previously Titular Bishop of Metræ & Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay succeeding as Bishop of Abancay, Titular Archbishop of Pederodiana & Archbishop Military Vicar of Peru
• Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez ; previously Titular Bishop of Castro & Auxiliary Bishop of Abancay & Auxiliary Bishop of Cusco , Auxiliary Bishop of Yauyos , Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Yauyos
• , previously Bishop of Tarma

  Other affiliated bishops

Auxiliary bishops

• Elías Prado Tello, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga
• Severo Aparicio Quispe, O. de M.
• Juan Antonio Ugarte Pérez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Yauyos

  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