Archdiocese of Ayacucho
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ayacucho o Huamanga is an archdiocese in the south-central Andes of Peru that was erected in the early 17th century, promoted to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1966 and covers the city of Ayacucho. Its archbishop—Archbishop Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón has been leading the Archdiocese since 2011—is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the Diocese of Huancavelica and the Territorial Prelature of Caravelí.
History
- 20 July 1609: Established as Diocese of Huamanga from the Diocese of Cusco, suffragan of the archdioceses of Lima
- 1838: Diocese renamed Diocese of Ayacucho
- 30 June 1966: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ayacucho
- 2009: the Archdiocese celebrated its 400th anniversary.
Bishops
Ordinaries
- Agustín de Carvajal, O.S.A.
- Francisco Verdugo Cabrera
- Gabriel de Zarate, O.P.
- Antonio Corderiña Vega, O.S.A.
- Andrés García de Zurita
- Francisco de Godoy
- Cipriano Medina, O.P.
- Vasco Jacinto de Contreras y Valverde
- Cristóbal de Castilla y Zamora
- Sancho de Andrade de Figueroa
- Francisco Luis de Bruna Rico
- Mateo Delgado
- Diego Ladrón de Guevara
- Francisco de Deza y Ulloa
- Alfonso Roldán, O.S.Bas.
- Miguel Bernardino de la Fuenta y Rojas
- Francisco Gutiérrez Galeano, O. de M.
- Felipe Manrique de Lara y Polanco
- José Luis de Lila y Moreno, O.S.A.
- Miguel Moreno y Ollo
- Francisco López Sánchez
- Bartolomé Fabro Palacios
- Francisco Matienzo
- José Antonio Martínez de Aldunate
- José Vicente Silva Avilés y Olave Salaverría
- Pedro Gutiérrez de Cos y Saavedra Seminario
- Juan Rodríguez Reymúndez
- Santiago José O’ Phelan Recabarren
- José Francisco Ezequiel Moreyra
- Juan José de Polo Valenzuela
- Julian Cáceres Negrón
- Fidel Olivas Escudero
- Francesco Solano Muente y Campos, O.F.M.
- Victorino Alvarez, S.D.B.
- Otoniel Alcedo Culquicóndor, S.D.B. Diocese elevated to Archdiocese 3 June 1966
- Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada, O.F.M.
- Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne
- Luis Abilio Sebastiani Aguirre, S.M.
- Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón
Coadjutor bishops
- Andrés García de Zurita
- Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada, O.F.M.
Auxiliary bishops
- Elías Prado Tello
- Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, appointed Archbishop here; future Cardinal
- Gabino Miranda Melgarejo, resigned; later that year, he was excardinated, or dismissed, and laicized -returned to the lay state- for sexual misconduct