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Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Chuquibamba

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Country
  
Peru

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Metropolitan
  
Arequipa

Area
  
22,151 km²

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2004) 138,416 135,647 (98.0%)

Bishop
  
Rev. Fr. Jorge Enrique Izaguirre Rafael, C.S.C., Bishop Prelate-elect of Chuquibamba (appointed by Pope Francis to succeed the retiring Bishop Prelate, Mario Busquets Jordá, on Monday, May 11, 2015)

The Territorial Prelature of Chuquibamba (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Chuquibambensis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature located in the city of Chuquibamba in the Ecclesiastical province of Arequipa in Peru.

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History

On 5 June 1962, the Territorial Prelature of Chuquibamba was established.

Ordinaries

  • Prelates of Chuquibamba (Roman rite)
  • Redento Maria Gauci, O. Carm. (5 June 1962 – February 1977)
  • Lorenzo Miccheli Filippetti, O.S.A. (12 August 1976 – 16 July 1986)
  • Luis Baldo Riva, C.Ss.R. (27 June 1977 – 27 June 1983)
  • Felipe María Zalba Elizalde, O.P. (29 February 1984 – 19 October 1999)
  • Mario Busquets Jordá (25 January 2001 – present)

    • References

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