Territorial Prelature of Caravelí
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Territorial Prelature of Caravelí Praelatura Territorialis Caraveliensis |
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| Location | |
| Country |  Peru |
| Ecclesiastical province | Ayacucho |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 29,229 km2 (11,285 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2004) 115,000 105,000 (91.3%) |
| Information | |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | sede vacante (vacant see); Bishop Juan Carlos Vera Plasencia, M.S.C., the outgoing Bishop, was named Bishop-designate of the Military Ordinariate of Peru on Wednesday, 16 July 2014, by Pope Francis |
The Territorial Prelature of Caravelí (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Caraveliensis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature (pre-diocesan jurisdiction) in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Ayacucho in southern Peru.
Its cathedral episcopal see is located in the city of Caravelí.
The Territorial Prelature of Caravelí was established on 14 December 1996, on territories split off from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ayacucho and its own Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Arequipa.
As per 2014, it pastorally served 119,754 Catholics (82.9% of 144,370 total) on 30,000 km² in 22 parishes and 5 missions with 13 priests (9 diocesan, 4 religious), 60 lay religious (6 brothers, 54 sisters) and 6 seminarians.
(all Roman rite, so far Europeans and/or members of a Latin missionary congregation)
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