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The old Archbishop's Palace was built on the place the Cabildo of Lima had occupied from 1535 to 1548, when that institution moved to its current location across the square. The building had six balconies of different styles and several entrances, displaying the Archdiocese coat of arms above the main gate.
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.
The Historic Centre of Lima (Spanish: Centro histórico de Lima) is the historic city centre of the city of Lima, the capital of Peru.Located in the city's districts of Lima and Rímac, both in the Rímac Valley, it consists of two areas: the first is the Monumental Zone established by the Peruvian government in 1972, [1] and the second one—contained within the first one—is the World ...
The Basilica Cathedral of Lima, [a] commonly known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima, [b] is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Lima, Peru. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Lima . Its construction began in 1535 and finished in 1797, having been built in its present form between 1602 and 1797. [ 4 ]
In 1922, construction of the Archbishop's Palace of Lima was completed. In 1938, the Government Palace was completed and in 1944 the Municipal Palace was completed.
Before being elected pope, Francis passed up the opportunity as the head of Argentina's archbishop to live in the grand Archbishop's Palace in Buenos Aires. Instead, he chose to live in a "small ...
The Church of the Sanctuary (Spanish: Iglesia Parroquial del Sagrario) is a Catholic church in Lima, Peru.It is located on the second block of the Jirón Carabaya, between the Archbishop's Palace and the Basilica Metropolitan Cathedral, and facing the main square of the city. [1]
The Casa O'Higgins is a colonial-style building located in the historic centre of Lima, specifically located in the Jirón de la Unión, a few metres from the Plaza de Armas of the Peruvian capital. Since 2008, the house has functioned as a cultural centre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a permanent space dedicated to the ...