Suffragan territorial prelature Caravelí, Peru
Diocese of Caravelí
Caravelien(sis)
Latin Church
Caraveli is a Latin Church territorial prelature in the southern Andes of Peru, erected on 21 November 1957 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Ayacucho. Pope Leo XIV appointed Francisco Castro Lalupu as bishop-prelate on 25 May 2026.
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- Established
- 1957
- Catholics
- 105,000
- Priests
- 19
- Territory
- 29,229 km²
Parishes and churches
23 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- San PedroCahuacho · CathedralView parish
- Inmaculada ConcepciónCaravelíView parish
- Niño JesúsPacapauzaView parish
- Niño JesúsPuquioView parish
- Nuestra Señora Virgen de las NievesCoracoraView parish
- San CristóbalRelaveView parish
- San Francisco de AsísChaviñaView parish
- San IldefonsoPulloView parish
- San JacintoChalaView parish
- San Juan BautistaHuac-HuasView parish
- San Juan BautistaColtaView parish
- San Juan BautistaOyoloView parish
- San PedroCorcullaView parish
- San Pedro ApóstolAticoView parish
- San Pedro ApóstolChumpiView parish
- San Pedro ApóstolYaucaView parish
- Santa LucíaChuñuñoView parish
- Santa Rosa de LimaOcañaView parish
- Santiago ApóstolAcaríView parish
- Santiago ApóstolLucanasView parish
- Santiago ApóstolPauzaView parish
- Santísima CruzPararcaView parish
- Virgen de la AsunciónLaramateView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Francisco Castro Lalupú
- Born
- 13 August 1973
- Birthplace
- Bellavista-Sullana
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The cathedral
Catedral de San Pedro Apóstol stands in Caravelí, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
A pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church in southern Peru, the Territorial Prelature of Caravelí (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Caraveliensis) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Ayacucho. Its cathedral episcopal see stands in the city of Caravelí.