Territorial Prelature of Caravelí
The Territorial Prelature of Caravelí is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Ayacucho in southern Peru.
Its cathedral episcopal see is located in the city of Caravelí.
History
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.Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 119,754 Catholics on 30,000 km2 in 22 parishes and 5 missions with 13 priests, 60 lay religious and 6 seminarians.Episcopal ordinaries
;Territorial Bishop-Prelates of Caravelí- Federico Kaiser Depel, Sacred Heart Missionaries, Titular Bishop of Berrhœa
- Bernhard Franz Kühnel Langer, M.S.C.
- Juan Carlos Vera Plasencia, M.S.C., next stayed on as Apostolic Administrator of Caravelí a while when appointed Military Ordinary of the Peru by Pope Francis
- Reinhold Nann, no previous prelature.