Francisco Castro Lalupú

Bishop Francisco Castro Lalupú (born 13 August 1973) is a Peruvian Roman Catholic bishop as the prelate Territorial Prelature of Caravelí since 25 May 2026.

Education Bishop Castro Lalupú was born in the Bellavista District, Sullana of the Archdiocese of Piura. After graduation of the school education, he began his priestly formation, first at the San Juan María Vianney Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Piura and later at the San Carlos and San Marcelo Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Trujillo, which he continued at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy, and concluded with a Bachelor of Theology degree

Prelate On April 4, 2020, he was appointed by the Pope Francis as the second Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Trujillo, Peru and Titular Bishop of Putia in Byzacena. On September 29, 2020, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church.