TRUJILLO, ARCHDIOCESE OF. - Archdiocese and capital city of the department of La Libertad and of the province of the same name in Peru.

It has an area of 38,393 sq. km. and a population of 610,009 inhabitants, of whom 597,800 are Catholics; it has 55 parishes served by 53 diocesan priests and 35 regulars; it has 11 male religious communities and 12 female ones (Ann. Pont. 1953, p. 433).

The diocese was created by Pope Gregory XIII on 13 April 1577, as a suffragan of Lima, and comprised the departments of Lambayeque, Libertad, Piura and the province of Tumbes. This arrangement was confirmed by Paul V in 1611, and the first bishop was Msgr. Alfonso de Guzman. On 23 May 1943 Pope Pius XII, by the apostolic constitution Inter praecipuas, raised it to the rank of archdiocese, giving it as suffragans the dioceses of Cajamarca, Chachapoyas, Piura and the Prelature of Moyobamba, and elevating the cathedral to the rank and dignity of metropolitan. By a decree of 1824 the building of the Society of Jesus was occupied in order to form the University of Trujillo.

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BIBL.: AAS, 35 (1943), pp. 273-75; anonymous, s. v. in Enc. Eur. Am., LXIV, pp. 1149-52; A. A. Mac Erlean, s. v. in The Cath. Enc., XV, p. 70.

Enrico Josi

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