Archdiocese of Asunción
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Archdiocese of Asunción
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| Country | Paraguay |
| Diocesan bishop | Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid SDS |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga |
| surface | 2,582 km² |
| Parishes | 76 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 1,839,000 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 1,664,000 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 90.5% |
| Diocesan priest | 81 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 170 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 6,629 |
| Permanent deacons | 96 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Friars | 564 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 480 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral Metropolitana de Asunción ( Assumption of Mary ) |
| Website | www.arzobispado.org.py |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Benjamín Aceval Diocese of Caacupé Diocese of Carapeguá Diocese of Ciudad del Este Diocese of Concepción Diocese of Coronel Oviedo Diocese of Encarnación Diocese of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones Diocese of San Lorenzo Diocese of San Pedro Diocese of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo |
The Archdiocese of Asunción ( Latin : Archidioecesis Sanctissimae Assumptionis ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Asunción , the capital of Paraguay.
The Archdiocese was founded on July 1, 1547 as the Diocese of Paraguay , a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lima , by Pope Paul III. founded; the first bishop was the Spanish Franciscan Juan de los Barrios, OFM. By Pope Pius XI. it was raised to an archbishopric on May 1, 1929; the first archbishop was the Paraguayan Sinforiano Bogarín .
The current boundaries of the archdiocese are congruent with those of the administration and the district of the capital of the Republic of Paraguay.
Bishops of Asunción
Bishops
- Juan de los Barrios OFM , 1547–1552, then Bishop of Santa Marta
- Pedro de la Torre OFM, 1554-1573
- Alfonso Guerra OP , 1579–1592, then Bishop of Michoacán
- Baltazar de Covarrubias y Múñoz OSA , 1601–1603, then Bishop of Nueva Caceres
- Martín Ignacio de Loyola , 1603-1606
- Reginaldo de Lizárraga OP, 1609-1609
- Lorenzo Pérez de Grado , 1615–1619, then Bishop of Cuzco
- Tomás de la Torre Gibaja OP, 1620–1628, then Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán)
- Cristóbal de Aresti Martínez de Aguilar OSB , 1629–1635, then Bishop of Buenos Aires
- Francisco de la Serna OSA, 1635–1637, then Bishop of Popayán
- Sebastián de Pastrana OdeM , 1687-1700
- José Cayetano Paravicino OFM, 1738–1747, then Bishop of Trujillo
- Manuel Antonio de la Torre , 1756–1762, then Bishop of Buenos Aires
- Luis Velasco OFM, 1779-1792
- Nicolás Videla del Pino , 1802–1807, then Bishop of Salta
- Pedro García Panés, OFM, 1807-1838
- Emmanuele Antonio Palacios , 1865–1879
- Pietro Giovanni Aponte , 1879-1894
- Sinforiano Bogarín , 1894-1929
Archbishops
- Sinforiano Bogarín, 1929-1949
- Juan José Aníbal Mena Porta , 1949–1970
- Ismael Rolón SDB , 1970-1989
- Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos , 1989–2002
- Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga CSsR , 2002–2014
- Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid SDB, since 2014
See also
Web links
Commons : Archdiocese of Asunción - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Entry about the Archdiocese of Asunción on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Homepage of the Archdiocese of Asuncion (Spanish)