Suffragan diocese Encarnación, Paraguay
Diocese of Encarnación
Sanctissimae Incarnationis
Latin Church
The Diocese of Encarnación is a Latin rite see in southern Paraguay, erected as a territorial prelature in 1957 and promoted to a diocese in 1990. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Asunción.
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- Established
- 1957
- Catholics
- 441,000
- Priests
- 54
- Territory
- 16,525 km²
Parishes and churches
34 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Santísimo Nombre de MaríaEncarnaciónView parish
- Virgen de FátimaNatalioView parish
- Virgen de LourdesAlboradaView parish
- Virgen del RosarioGeneral ArtigasView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Francisco Javier Pistilli Scorzara
- Born
- 26 May 1965
- Birthplace
- Asunción
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The cathedral
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación stands in Encarnación, 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
The city of Encarnación, in the ecclesiastical province of Asunción in Paraguay, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Encarnación (Latin: Dioecesis Sanctissimae Incarnationis).