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		 (as of 2004)
115,000
105,000 (91.3%)
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Current leadership
Bishop sede vacante (vacant see); Bishop Juan Carlos Vera Plasencia, M.S.C., the outgoing Bishop, was named Bishop-designate of the Military Ordinariate of Peru on Wednesday, 16 July 2014, by Pope Francis

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 (1963.10.29 – death 1993.09.26)
  • 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 styed on as Apostolic Administrator of Caravelí (2014.07.16 – 2017.05.27) a while when appointed Military Ordinary of the Peru (2014.07.16 – ...) by Pope Francis
  • Bishop-elect Reinhold Nann (°Germany) (2017.05.27 – ...), no previous prelature.

See also


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