The Territorial Prelature of Caravelí 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)

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