Diocese of Ciudad del Este
Urbis Orientalis
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Latin-rite diocese in eastern Paraguay, established 25 March 1968 as the Territorial Prelature of Alto Parana, elevated to a diocese on 10 July 1993 and renamed Diocese of Ciudad del Este in 2001; in February 2024 it lost territory to the new Diocese of Canindeyu. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Asuncion. Its mother church is the Catedral San Blas in Ciudad del Este.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1968
- Latin
- Urbis Orientalis
- Annuario code
- 001001162
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 500,000
- Population
- 600,100
- Catholic share
- 83.3%
- Extent
- 27,451 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 18
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
- Pedro Collar
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
Catedral San Blas, Ciudad del Este stands in Ciudad del Este, 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 Benjamín AcevalBenjamín Aceval
- Diocese of ConcepciónConcepción
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Ciudad del Este, in the Ecclesiastical Province of Asunción in Paraguay, is the base of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad del Este (Latin: Dioecesis Urbis Orientalis).
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].