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)
- Patron
- San Juan Bautista
- Annuario code
- 001000259
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 216,000
- Population
- 338,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 63.9%
- Priests
- 54
- Catholics per priest
- 4,000
- Extent
- 6,823 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 32
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 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
- Diocesan offices
- Pasaje Juan XXIII 287, Chota [Cajamarca], Perú
- Telephone and fax
- [76]35.14.75
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.