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Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Chota

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Country
  
Peru

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Metropolitan
  
Piura

Area
  
6,823 km²

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2004)338,000216,000 (93.5%)

Bishop
  
Fortunato Pablo Urcey, O.A.R.

The Territorial Prelature of Chota (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Chotensis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature, an administrative division not within a diocese, located in the city of Chota in the Ecclesiastical province of Piura in Peru.

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History

  • 7 April 1963: Established as Territorial Prelature of Chota

    • Ordinaries

    Prelates of Chota (Roman rite)

  • Bishop Florentino Armas Lerena, O.A.R. (April 7, 1963 – August 17, 1976)
  • Bishop José Arana Berruete, O.A.R. (January 24, 1979 – October 27, 1992)
  • Bishop Emiliano Antonio Cisneros Martínez, O.A.R. (December 7, 1993 – March 27, 2002)
  • Bishop José Carmelo Martínez Lázaro, O.A.R. (March 27, 2002 – October 12, 2004)
  • Bishop Fortunato Urcey, O.A.R. (October 15, 2005 – present)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Chota Wikipedia
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