A prelate is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin praelatus, the past participle of praeferre, which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'prefer'; hence, a prelate is one set over others.
The Catholic Church in Peru is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the curia in Rome, and the Peruvian Episcopal Conference.
A territorial prelate is, in Catholic usage, a prelate whose geographic jurisdiction, called territorial prelature, generally does not belong to any diocese and is considered a particular church.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Trujillo is an archdiocese located in the city of Trujillo in Peru.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Arequipa is an archdiocese located in the city of Arequipa in Peru. It was erected by Pope Gregory XIII on 15 April 1577 at the request of King Philip II of Spain.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ayacucho o Huamanga is an archdiocese in the south-central Andes of Peru that was erected in the early 17th century, promoted to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1966 and covers the city of Ayacucho. Its archbishop—Archbishop Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón has been leading the Archdiocese since 2011—is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the Diocese of Huancavelica and the Territorial Prelature of Caravelí.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Piura is an archdiocese located in the city of Piura in Peru.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chulucanas is a diocese located in the city of Chulucanas in the ecclesiastical province of Piura in Peru.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santarém is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese in northern Brazil. It was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará until 6 November 2019.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of (Santíssima) Conceição do Araguaia is a Latin suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic church, in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Belém do Pará in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of São Luíz de Cáceres is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Cuiabá in Mato Grosso state, western central Brazil.
The Diocese of Huarí is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Peru. Erected as a Territorial Prelature in 1958, elevation to a full diocese occurred in April 2008. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Trujillo.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Guajará-Mirim is a diocese located in the city of Guajará-Mirim in the ecclesiastical province of Porto Velho in Brazil.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Borba is a Roman Catholic diocese located in the city of Borba, Amazonas, in the ecclesiastical province of Manaus in Brazil.
The Territorial Prelature of São Félix is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Coronel Oviedo is a diocese located in the city of Coronel Oviedo in the ecclesiastical province of Asunción in Paraguay.
The Territorial Prelature of Moyobamba is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature located in the city of Moyobamba in the ecclesiastical province of Trujillo in Peru.
José Afonso Ribeiro T.O.R. was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Territorial Prelature of Borba, Brazil.
The Military Bishopric of Peru is a Latin Church military ordinariate of the Catholic Church. Immediately exempt to the Holy See, it provides pastoral care to Catholics serving in the Peruvian Armed Forces and their families.
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