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Apostolic vicariate Zamora, Ecuador

Diocese of Zamora

Zamoren(sis) in Aequatoria

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

Esri
Zamora, Ecuador, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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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.

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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.

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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.