Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Caravelí

Territorial Prelature of Caravelí Praelatura Territorialis Caraveliensis
Location
Country	Peru
Ecclesiastical province	Ayacucho
Statistics
Area	29,229 km2 (11,285 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2004) 115,000 105,000 (91.3%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Current leadership
Bishop
Bishops emeritus	, 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[]

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[]

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[]

(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[]

• List of Catholic dioceses in Peru

Sources and external links[]

• GCatholic.org, with Google satellite photo - data for all sections
• Catholic Hierarchy
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