Diocese of Carapeguá
Carapeguan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Carapeguá, Paraguay
The Diocese of Carapeguá is a Latin Church diocese in Paraguay, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Asunción and led by Bishop Celestino Ocampo Gaona since 2018. Sources differ on its erection date, with the English Wikipedia infobox citing 29 March 1967 while some Spanish sources cite 5 June 1978.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 June 1978
- Latin
- Carapeguan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001001056
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 206,000
- Population
- 226,514
- Catholic share
- 90.9%
- Extent
- 8,705 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 24
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
- Celestino Ocampo Gaona
- Born
- 19 May 1961
- Birthplace
- Curuzú Cuatiá
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
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Mary stands in Carapeguá, 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 Asunción
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Asunción.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AsunciónAsunción
- Diocese of CaacupéCaacupé
- Diocese of CaazapáCaazapá
- Diocese of CanindeyúCanindeyú
- Diocese of Coronel OviedoCoronel Oviedo
- Diocese of EncarnaciónEncarnación
- Diocese of San Juan BautistaSan Juan Bautista
- Diocese of San LorenzoSan Lorenzo
- Diocese of San PedroSan Pedro
- Diocese of VillarricaVillarrica
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Carapeguá, within the ecclesiastical province of Asunción in Paraguay, is home to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Carapeguá (Latin: Dioecesis Carapeguana).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Pedro Juan Caballero 875, Calle Gral. Bernardino Caballero, Carapeguá, Paraguay
- Telephone
- [0218]212.199
- [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].