Apostolic vicariate Zamora, Ecuador
Diocese of Zamora
Zamoren(sis) in Aequatoria
Latin Church
Apostolic Vicariate of Zamora en Ecuador, a missionary jurisdiction in the Amazonian Zamora-Chinchipe province erected in 1893 and immediately subject to the Holy See. The vicar apostolic is Bishop Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés.
On the map
Every see on one map: browse the dioceses. Churches with recorded hours: find Mass times.
- Established
- 1893
- Catholics
- 113,000
- Priests
- 28
- Territory
- 10,556 km²
Parishes and churches
38 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Nuestra Señora del CarmenZamora · CathedralView parish
- Cristo RedentorPaquishaView parish
- Cristo Redentor de PaquishaPaquishaView parish
- Jesús Buen PastorTimbaraView parish
- Jesús Buen Pastor de TundaymeTundaymeView parish
- Jesús de la MisericordiaImbanaView parish
- Jesús de la Misericordia de ImbanaImbanaView parish
- Juan Pablo II de La ChacraLa ChacraView parish
- María InmaculadaCumbaratzaView parish
- María Inmaculada de CumbaratzaCumbaratzaView parish
- Nuestra Señora de FátimaEl PanguiView parish
- Nuestra Señora de Fátima de El PanguiEl PanguiView parish
- Nuestra Señora de Fátima de ValladolidValladolidView parish
- Nuestra Señora de GuadalupeEl Porvenir del CarmenView parish
- Nuestra Señora de La PazZamoraView parish
- Nuestra Señora de la PazLa PazView parish
- Nuestra Señora de LourdesSan Carlos de las MinasView parish
- Nuestra Señora de Lourdes de San CarlosSan Carlos de las MinasView parish
- Nuestra Señora del Carmen de ZamoraZamoraView parish
- Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo SocorroChicañaView parish
- Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro de ChicañaChicañaView parish
- Nuestra Señora del RosarioZumbaView parish
- Nuestra Señora del Rosario de ZumbaZumbaView parish
- San AntonioZumbiView parish
- San AntonioChitoView parish
- San Antonio de ChitoChitoView parish
- San Antonio de ZumbiZumbiView parish
- San FranciscoSan Francisco del VergelView parish
- San Francisco del VergelEl VergelView parish
- San JoséValladolidView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés
- Born
- 17 September 1973
- Birthplace
- Gozanamá
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The cathedral
Catedral Nuestra Señora del Carmen stands in Zamora, 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 circumscription of the Roman Catholic Church, the Apostolic Vicariate of Zamora en (that is, in) Ecuador (Latin: Apostolicus Vicariatus Zamorensis in Aequatoria) has its cathedral see in the city of Zamora, in the Amazonian province of Zamora-Chinchipe. It is exempt, answering directly to the Holy See and belonging to no ecclesiastical province.