Archdiocese of Portoviejo
| Archdiocese of Portoviejo | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Ecuador |
| Diocesan bishop | Eduardo José Castillo Pino |
| Auxiliary bishop | Vicente Horacio Saeteros Sierra |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop |
José Mario Ruiz Navas Lorenzo Voltolini Esti |
| founding | 1870 |
| surface | 21,000 km² |
| Parishes | 89 ( 12/31/2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Residents | 1,496,366 ( 12/31/2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics | 1,346,730 ( 12/31/2016 / AP2017 ) |
| proportion of | 90% |
| Diocesan priest | 85 ( 12/31/2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 43 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 10,521 |
| Friars | 54 (31.12.2016 / AP2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 241 (December 31, 2016 / AP2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Catedral Jesús del Buen Pastor |
| Website | Arquidiócesis de Portoviejo |
| Suffragan dioceses | Diocese of Santo Domingo in Ecuador |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portoviejo ( Latin Archidioecesis Portus Veteris , Spanish Arquidiócesis de Portoviejo ) is an in Ecuador located Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Porto Viejo .
history
In the 16th century a church was built in the area of the present diocese. The area initially belonged to the diocese of Quito , which was founded a few years later , before it was annexed to the new diocese of Cuenca in 1763 and again to the diocese of Guayaquil in 1838 .
The diocese Portoviejo was on March 23, 1870 by Pope Pius IX. built from cessions of territory by the Archdiocese of Quito and the Diocese of Guayaquil. It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Quito as a suffragan . The Diocese of Portoviejo gave up on December 14, 1945 parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Esmeraldas . On January 22, 1956, the Diocese of Portoviejo was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Guayaquil as a suffragan.
On February 25, 1994, the diocese of Portoviejo was raised to an archbishopric by Pope John Paul II .
Bishops and Archbishops of Portoviejo
Bishops
- Luis Tola y Avilés , 1871–1881
- Pedro Schumacher CM , 1885-1900
- Juan María Riera OP , 1907–1912, then Bishop of Guayaquil
- Nicanor Carlos Gavinales Chamorro , 1947-1967
- Luis Alfredo Carvajal Rosales , 1967–1989
- José Mario Ruiz Navas , 1989–1994
Archbishops
- José Mario Ruiz Navas, 1994-2007
- Lorenzo Voltolini Esti , 2007-2018
- Eduardo José Castillo Pino , since 2019
See also
Web links
- Historical information on the Archdiocese's website
- Entry for the Archdiocese of Portoviejo on catholic-hierarchy.org
