Diocese of Benjamín Aceval
Beniaminacevalen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay
Latin-rite diocese in the Presidente Hayes Department of Paraguay, erected 28 June 1980 from the Diocese of Concepcion and the Apostolic Vicariate of Pilcomayo, with its see in Benjamin Aceval. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Asuncion and covers some 44,000 square kilometers of the lower Chaco.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 June 1980
- Latin
- Beniaminacevalen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000885
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 77,950
- Population
- 83,100
- Catholic share
- 93.8%
- Priests
- 8
- Catholics per priest
- 9,744
- Extent
- 44,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.8
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
- Amancio Benitez
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
Santa Rosa da Lima stands in Benjamín Aceval, 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 Asuncion
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Asuncion.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Ciudad del EsteCiudad del Este
- Diocese of ConcepciónConcepción
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Based in the city of Benjamín Aceval, within the ecclesiastical province of Asunción in Paraguay, is the Roman Catholic Diocese of Benjamín Aceval (Latin: Dioecesis Beniaminacevalensis).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Santa Rosa de Lima 1485 y Carlos Antonio López, 9800 Benjamín Aceval, Chaco, Paraguay
- Telephone
- 971.281.238
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].