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Suffragan territorial prelature Chota, Peru

Territorial Prelature of Chota

Choten(sis)

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.

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Esri
The address the register holds for this see, in Chota, Peru.

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Established
1963
Catholics
216,000
Priests
54
Territory
6,823 km²

Parishes and churches

14 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Victor Emiliano Villegas Suclupe, O.A.R.

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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.