Territorial Prelature of Chota, Peru 🇵🇪

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature

Name: Chota / Choten(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Piura

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Celebrations

Patron Saint: San Juan Bautista (June 24)

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1963.04.07: Established as Territorial Prelature of Chota / Choten(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Chiclayo and became suffragan of Trujillo)
1966.06.30: Became suffragan of Piura

Contact Info

Address: Apartado 22, Pasaje Juan XXIII 287, Chota, Cajamarca, Peru

Phone: (76)35.14.75

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2022.07.02 – ...):

Bishop Víctor Emiliano Villegas Suclupe, O.A.R. (58)

Ordinaries

Prelates of Chota (Roman Rite)

Bishop Víctor Emiliano Villegas Suclupe, O.A.R. (58)
(2022.07.02 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of Chota (Peru)

Domine totum in te

Born:	1967.02.09 (Lambayeque, Peru)
Ordained Priest:	2003.03.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2022.10.15

Bishop-Prelate of Chota (Peru) (2022.07.02 – ...)

Bishop Fortunato Pablo Urcey, O.A.R. (78)
(2005.10.15 – 2022.07.02)

Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Chota (Peru)

Percussisti cor meum verbo tuo et amavi te

Born:	1947.03.13 (Estollo, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1971.07.05
Consecrated Bishop:	2005.12.12

Bishop-Prelate of Chota (Peru) (2005.10.15 – 2022.07.02)

General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Peru (2011 – 2017.01.18)

Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Cajamarca (Peru) (2019.06 – 2021.10.23)

Bishop José Carmelo Martínez Lázaro, O.A.R. (71)
(2002.03.27 – 2004.10.12)

Bishop emeritus of Cajamarca (Peru)

Via veritas et vita

Born:	1954.08.21 (Luezas, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1980.07.19
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.05.05

Bishop-Prelate of Chota (Peru) (2002.03.27 – 2004.10.12)

Bishop of Cajamarca (Peru) (2004.10.12 – 2021.10.23)

Bishop Emiliano Antonio Cisneros Martínez, O.A.R. (80)
(1993.12.07 – 2002.03.27)

Bishop emeritus of Chachapoyas (Peru)

Ut vitam habeant

Born:	1945.02.08 (Almazul, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1968.07.14
Consecrated Bishop:	1994.01.06

Bishop-Prelate of Chota (Peru) (1993.12.07 – 2002.03.27)

Bishop of Chachapoyas (Peru) (2002.03.27 – 2022.03.09)

Apostolic Administrator of Huamachuco (Peru) (2018.08.07 – 2019.07.26)

Bishop José Arana Berruete, O.A.R.
(1979.01.24 – 1992.10.27)

Born:	1923.03.27 (Barbarin, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1946.04.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1979.05.20
Died:	1992.10.27 († 69)

Bishop-Prelate of Chota (Peru) (1979.01.24 – 1992.10.27)

Bishop Florentino Armas Lerena, O.A.R.
(1963.04.07 – 1976.08.17)

Born:	1900.10.16 (San Millan de la Cogolla, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1923.03.18
Consecrated Bishop:	1967.06.04
Died:	1979.11.25 († 79)

Bishop-Prelate of Chota (Peru) (1963.04.07 – 1976.08.17)

Titular Bishop of Macomades (1967.04.08 – 1979.11.25)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral de Todos los Santos, Chota, Cajamarca
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Chiclayo (←), Chulucanas (↖), Jaén en Perú (↑), Yurimaguas (↗), Chachapoyas (→), Trujillo (↓), Cajamarca (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 6,823 km²

Population: 288,575 Catholics (91.6% of 315,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 17 parishes, 20 missions

Personnel: 53 priests (49 diocesan, 4 religious), 33 religious (6 brothers, 27 sisters), 23 seminarians