Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Caravelí
Territorial Prelature of Caravelí Praelatura Territorialis Caraveliensis | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Peru |
| Ecclesiastical province | Ayacucho |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 29,229 km2 (11,285 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 115,000 105,000 (91.3%) |
| Information | |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Reinhold Nann |
| Bishops emeritus | Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer, M.S.C. |
The Territorial Prelature of Caravelí (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Caraveliensis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature (pre-diocesan jurisdiction) in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Ayacucho in southern Peru.
Its cathedral episcopal see is located in the city of Caravelí.
History[edit]
The Territorial Prelature of Caravelí was established on 14 December 1996, on territories split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ayacucho and its own Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Arequipa.
Statistics[edit]
As per 2014, it pastorally served 119,754 Catholics (82.9% of 144,370 total) on 30,000 km² in 22 parishes and 5 missions with 13 priests (9 diocesan, 4 religious), 60 lay religious (6 brothers, 54 sisters) and 6 seminarians.
Episcopal ordinaries[edit]
(all Roman rite, so far Europeans and/or members of a Latin missionary congregation)
- Territorial Bishop-Prelates of Caravelí
- Federico Kaiser Depel, Sacred Heart Missionaries (M.S.C.) (°Germany) (21 November 1957 – retired 25 May 1971), Titular Bishop of Berrhœa (29 October 1963 – death 26 September 1993)
- Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer, M.S.C. (°Poland) (26 January 1983 – retired 18 June 2005)
- Juan Carlos Vera Plasencia, M.S.C. (first native incumbent) (18 June 2005 – 16 July 2014), next stayed on as Apostolic Administrator of Caravelí (16 July 2014 – 27 May 2017) a while when appointed Military Ordinary of the Peru (16 July 2014 – ...) by Pope Francis
- Reinhold Nann (°Germany) (27 May 2017 – ...), no previous prelature.
See also[edit]
Sources and external links[edit]
| Province of Arequipa | |
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| Province of Ayacucho | |
| Province of Cusco | |
| Province of Huancayo | |
| Province of Lima | |
| Province of Piura | |
| Province of Trujillo | |
| Sui iuris jurisdictions |
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