Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima

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Archdiocese of Lima Archidioecesis Limana
Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist
Location
Country	Peru
Ecclesiastical province	Lima
Statistics
Area	639 km2 (247 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 3,582,000 3,224,000 (90%)
Parishes	113
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	14 May 1541 (483 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Basílica San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio
Auxiliary Bishops	Ricardo Augusto Rodríguez Álvarez Guillermo Teodoro Elías Millares Juan José Salaverry Villarreal Guillermo Antonio Cornejo Monzón
Bishops emeritus	Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne Adriano Tomasi Travaglia
Map
Website
www.arzobispadodelima.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima (Latin: Archidioecesis Limana) is part of the Catholic Church in Peru which enjoys full communion with the Holy See. The Archdiocese was founded as the Diocese of Lima on 14 May 1541. The diocese was raised to the level of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Paul III on 12 February 1546. One of its archbishops was the saint Torribio Mogrovejo.^[1][2][3]

The suffragan dioceses are: Callao, Carabayllo, Chosica, Huacho, Ica, Lurín, and (Territorial Prelature) Yauyos. From 1999 to 2019 the Archbishop of Lima was Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, made Cardinal in 2001. The Archbishop's Palace of Lima is the headquarters of the archdiocese.