Military Ordinariate of Ecuador
Military ordinariate · Latin Church · Ecuador, Ecuador
Military ordinariate (Obispado Castrense del Ecuador) providing pastoral care to Catholics serving in the Ecuadorian Armed Forces and their families, with headquarters in Quito. Established as the Military Vicariate of Ecuador on 30 March 1983 and elevated to a military ordinariate on 21 July 1986. The see has been vacant since Bishop Segundo Rene Coba Galarza left office in December 2019.
The see
- Rank
- Military ordinariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 30 March 1983
- Patron
- Virgen de la Merced
- Annuario code
- 001000352
The see in figures
- Priests
- 86
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- José Miguel Asimbaya Moreno
- Born
- 31 October 1959
- Birthplace
- Quito
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Merced stands in Ecuador, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Catholics serving in the Ecuadorian Armed Forces, together with their families, receive pastoral care from the Military Ordinariate of Ecuador (Spanish: Obispado Castrense del Ecuador), a Latin Church jurisdiction. Immediately exempt to the Holy See and its Roman Congregation for Bishops, it is headquartered at Apartado 17-03-758, Av. América 1830 y Mercadillo in Quito, the national capital.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Av. 6 de Diciembre N. 14-20 y Sodiro, Edificio Capitolio, Piso 8, Quito
- Telephone
- 09.862.87.558
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].