Territorial Prelature of Chota
Choten(sis)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Chota, Peru
Latin rite territorial prelature in the Cajamarca highlands of northern Peru, erected 7 April 1963 and entrusted to the Augustinian Recollects. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Piura, seated in the city of Chota.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 7 April 1963
- Latin
- Choten(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000259
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 216,000
- Population
- 338,000
- Catholic share
- 63.9%
- Priests
- 54
- Catholics per priest
- 4,000
- Extent
- 6,823 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 32
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Victor Emiliano Villegas Suclupe, O.A.R.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
noch im Bau stands in Chota, 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.
The province of Piura
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Piura.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of ChachapoyasChachapoyas
- Diocese of ChiclayoChiclayo
- Diocese of ChulucanasChulucanas
- Archdiocese of PiuraPiura
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
An administrative division not contained within a diocese, the Territorial Prelature of Chota (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Chotensis) is a Roman Catholic jurisdiction seated in the city of Chota, within Peru's ecclesiastical province of Piura.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Pasaje Juan XXIII 287, Chota [Cajamarca], Perú
- Telephone
- e fax [76]35.14.75
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].