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A Comboni Missionary is the new Bishop of Tarma, Peru
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The Holy Father has nominated Comboni Father Luis Alberto Barrera Pacheco as bishop of Tarma, Peru. Up to the present he has been provincial superior of the Comboni Missionaries province of Peru-Chile and vice-president of the Conference of Religious Major Superiors in Peru. Fr. Luis Alberto is 50 years old and was born in Gorgor, Cajatambo, in the diocese of Huacho, part of the ecclesiastical province of Lima. In 2010 the Diocese of Tarma had 554,000 baptized Catholics out of a population of 652,000.
Fr. Luis Alberto B. Pacheco
with Pope Francis,
in October 2015,
in Roma.
Fr. Luis Alberto Barrera Pacheco was born in Gorgor on November 16, 1966. He took his first vows as a Comboni Missionary on May 5, 1991 and made his perpetual profession on November 19, 1994. He was ordained a priest on June 10, 1995. He studied philosophy and theology at the Institute of Higher Learning Juan XXIII in Lima.
The missionary has fulfilled the following assignments: 1996-2000, pastor of Santa Ana in Dekoa, diocese of Kaga-Bandoro, in the Republic of Central Africa (CAR); 2001-2007, in charge of the Comboni postulants in Bangui, CAR; 2008-2010, educator at the Comboni theologate in Lima; 2011- present, provincial superior of the Comboni Province of Peru-Chile and, as of 2012, vice-president of the Conference of Religious Major Superiors in Peru.
In 2010 the Diocese of Tarma had 554,000 baptized Catholics out of a population of 652,000. It covers two provinces of the Peruvian region of Junín and Tarma and two provinces of the region of Pasco, Daniel Alcides Carrión and Pasco. The episcopal see is the city of Tarma, where St. Anne’s cathedral is located. The diocese covers about 5,000 square miles and is divided into 18 parishes.
