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Territorial Prelature of Chuquibamba

Chuquibamben(sis)

Latin rite territorial prelature in the Arequipa region of southern Peru, erected 5 June 1962. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Arequipa, its prelatic see is the Cathedral of San Miguel Arcangel in Camana. Bishop Juan Carlos Asqui Pilco was appointed prelate on 9 February 2024.

The see

Rank
Suffragan territorial prelature
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
5 June 1962
Latin
Chuquibamben(sis)
Annuario code
001000260

The see in figures

Catholics
135,647
Population
138,416
Catholic share
98.0%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
27
Catholics per priest
5,024
Extent
22,151 km²
Catholics per km²
6.1

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
Juan Carlos Asqui Pilco
Born
7 December 1972
Birthplace
Tacna

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

Cathedral of San Miguel Arcangel, Camana stands in Chuquibamba, 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 Arequipa

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Arequipa.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

The city of Chuquibamba, in Peru's ecclesiastical province of Arequipa, is the seat of this Roman Catholic territorial prelature (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Chuquibambensis).

How to reach it

Chancery
Jr. Piérola 322, Camaná [Arequipa], Perú
Telephone
[54]57.12.72

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.

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Sources

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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].