Diocese of Babahoyo
| Diocese of Babahoyo | |
 |
|
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Ecuador |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Guayaquil |
| Diocesan bishop | Skiper Bladimir Yánez Calvachi |
| founding | 1948 |
| surface | 6,265 km² |
| Parishes | 30 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 849,000 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 636.240 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 74.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 31 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 12 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 14,796 |
| Friars | 15 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 41 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
The Diocese of Babahoyo ( Latin Dioecesis Babahoiensis , Spanish diócesis de Babahoyo ) is in Ecuador located Roman Catholic diocese based in Babahoyo .
history
The Diocese of Babahoyo was established on July 15, 1948 from cessions of territory from the Diocese of Guayaquil as the Apostolic Vicariate of Los Ríos . On September 10, 1951, the Vicariate Apostolic was elevated to a territorial prelature . On August 22, 1994, the territorial prelature Los Ríos was raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Babahoyo . The diocese of Babahoyo was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Guayaquil as a suffragan .
Ordinaries of Babahoyo
Vicars Apostolic
- Adolfo Maria Astudillo Morales , August 13, 1948 - September 10, 1951
Prelates
- Adolfo Maria Astudillo Morales, September 10, 1951-1957
- Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia , November 29, 1963 - May 12, 1982
- Jesús Ramón Martínez de Ezquerecocha Suso , June 28, 1984 - August 22, 1994
Bishops
- Jesús Ramón Martínez de Ezquerecocha Suso, August 22, 1994 - March 27, 2008
- Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez OFM , March 27, 2008 - September 11, 2010, then Archbishop of Quito
- Marco Pérez Caicedo , February 10, 2012 - June 20, 2016, then Archbishop of Cuenca
- Skiper Bladimir Yánez Calvachi , since March 27, 2018