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.
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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.
- San José de YacuambiYacuambiView parish
- San Juan BautistaPalandaView parish
- San Juan Bautista de PalandaPalandaView parish
- San Juan Pablo IILa ChacraView parish
- Santa AnaLos EncuentrosView parish
- Santa Ana de Los EncuentrosLos EncuentrosView parish
- Santa Mariana de JesúsYantzazaView parish
- Santa Mariana de Jesús de YantzazaYantzazaView 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.