Caacupé diocese
Caacupé diocese
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Country | Paraguay |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Asunción |
Diocesan bishop | Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela Ríos |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina |
founding | March 29, 1966 |
surface | 4,984 km² |
Parishes | 22 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 284,619 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 273.014 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 95.9% |
Diocesan priest | 24 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 6 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 9,100 |
Permanent deacons | 3 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 9 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 38 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Spanish |
cathedral | Basílica de la Virgen de los Milagros |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caacupé ( lat. : Dioecesis Caacupensis , span. : Diócesis de Caacupé ) is in Paraguay located Roman Catholic diocese based in Caacupé .
history
The diocese Caacupé was on August 2, 1960 by Pope John XXIII. Erected as a territorial prelature Caacupé from the cession of territory by the Archdiocese of Asunción and the Diocese of Concepción en Paraguay . The territorial prelature was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Asunción as a suffragan . On March 29, 1967, the territorial prelature Caacupé was raised to the diocese.
Ordinaries of Caacupé
Prelates
- Ismael Rolón SDB , 1960-1967
Bishops
- Ismael Rolón SDB, 1967–1970, then Archbishop of Asunción
- Demetrio Ignacio Aquino Aquino , 1971–1994
- Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina , 1995-2017
- Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela Ríos , since 2017