Apostolic vicariate Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas
Esmeralden(sis)
Latin Church
The Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas is a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Latin Church on Ecuador's Pacific coast, erected on 14 December 1945 and exempt (directly subject to the Holy See). Its seat is the Catedral Cristo Rey in the city of Esmeraldas.
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- Established
- 1945
- Catholics
- 493,000
- Priests
- 60
- Territory
- 15,260 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Vicar Apostolic
- Antonio Crameri, S.S.C.
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The cathedral
Catedral Cristo Rey stands in Esmeraldas, 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
A missionary pre-diocesan circumscription of the Roman Catholic Church, the Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Esmeraldensis) has its cathedral see, the Catedral Cristo Rey, in the town of Esmeraldas, in Ecuador's Pacific coastal province of the same name. It is exempt, meaning it answers directly to the Holy See and belongs to no ecclesiastical province.