Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay

The Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church .

history

In 1542 the first missionaries settled in Paraguay . In 1547 , today's Archdiocese of Asunción was founded as the Diocese of Paraguay . From 1609 until the expulsion from South America in 1768 , the Jesuits were very active and founded numerous Jesuit reductions .

organization

The Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay is divided into an ecclesiastical province with an archbishopric and eleven dioceses . There are also two apostolic vicariates and the military ordinariate .

The Catholic Church in Paraguay is represented by the Conferencia Episcopal Paraguaya (CEP) ; Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga is the chairman of the Bishops' Conference . The Apostolic Nuncio has been Eliseo Antonio Ariotti since 2009 .

About 5.7 million people (80% of the total population) of Paraguay are Catholics .

Dioceses in Paraguay

1. Archdiocese of Asunción
   1. Bishopric of Benjamin Aceval
   2. Caacupé diocese
   3. Diocese of Carapeguá
   4. Diocese of Ciudad del Este
   5. Diocese of Concepción (Paraguay)
   6. Diocese of Coronel Oviedo
   7. Diocese of Encarnación
   8. Diocese of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones
   9. Diocese of San Lorenzo
   10. Diocese of San Pedro
   11. Diocese of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo
2. Immediate:
   1. Military ordinariate
   2. Vicariate Apostolic Chaco Paraguayo
   3. Vicariate Apostolic Pilcomayo

literature

• Miguel Fritz: Paraguay . In: Johannes Meier , Veit Straßner (ed.): Church and Catholicism since 1945. Vol. 6. Latin America and the Caribbean . Schöningh, Paderborn 2009. ISBN 978-3-506-74466-1 . Pp. 447-461.

Web links

• Entry about Paraguay on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
• Website of the Conferencia Episcopal Paraguaya (Spanish)
• The Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay (English)