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Suffragan territorial prelature Caravelí, Peru

Diocese of Caravelí

Caravelien(sis)

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.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Catedral de San Pedro Apóstol, in Caravelí, Peru.

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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.

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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.

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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.