Diocese of Guaranda
Guaranden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Guaranda, Ecuador
Latin-rite diocese seated in Guaranda, Bolivar Province, Ecuador. Erected on 29 December 1957 from territory of the Diocese of Riobamba and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Quito. Its cathedral is San Pedro Cathedral in Guaranda.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 December 1957
- Latin
- Guaranden(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora de la Elevación o de la Peña
- Annuario code
- 001001540
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 162,100
- Population
- 188,500
- Catholic share
- 86.0%
- Priests
- 92
- Catholics per priest
- 1,762
- Extent
- 3,336 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 49
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Hermenegildo Jose Torres Asanza
- Born
- 2 June 1966
- Birthplace
- San Roque
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
San Pedro Cathedral, Guaranda stands in Guaranda, 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.
The province of Quito
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Quito.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of QuitoQuito
- Diocese of AmbatoAmbato
- Diocese of IbarraIbarra
- Diocese of LatacungaLatacunga
- Diocese of RiobambaRiobamba
- Diocese of TulcánTulcán
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Territory taken from the Diocese of Riobamba was used on 29 December 1957 to erect the Roman Catholic Diocese of Guaranda (Latin: Dioecesis Guarandensis), seated in the city of Guaranda within the ecclesiastical province of Quito.
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].