Diocese of Azogues

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Diocese of Azogues
Map of the diocese of Azogues
Basic data
Country Ecuador
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Cuenca
Diocesan bishop Oswaldo Patricio Ventimilla Cabrera
founding 1968
surface 4,515 km²
Parishes 32 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Residents 235,000 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics 230,000 (2015 / AP 2016 )
proportion of 97.9%
Diocesan priest 35 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious priest 7 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics per priest 5,476
Friars 15 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious sisters 58 (2015 / AP 2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral San Francisco
address Apartado 03-01-0759
Calle Solano 2–20 y Matovelle
Azogues, Cañar
Ecuador

The Diocese of Azogues ( lat. : Dioecesis Azoguensis , span. : Diócesis de Azogues ) is in Ecuador located Roman Catholic diocese based in Azogues .

history

The diocese of Azogues was on June 26, 1968 by Pope Paul VI. established with the Apostolic Constitution Quo Magis from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Cuenca and subordinated to this as a suffragan .

Bishops of Azogues

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Azogues  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Paul VI: Const. Apost. Quo magis , AAS 60 (1968), n.14, pp. 778f.
Azogues:
San Francisco Cathedral