Enciclopedia Cattolica

Piura, Diocese of

PIURA, DIOCESI DI

Volume IX · p. 959 · 1952

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

PIURA, DIOCESE OF. - City and diocese of Peru, suffragan of Trujillo.

It has an area of 43,588 sq. km. and a population of 500,000 inhabitants, of whom 498,975 are Catholics, with 60 churches and 26 par-

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“PIURA, DIOCESI DI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), p. 959. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/piura-diocesi-di.