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Suffragan diocese San Juan Bautista, Paraguay

Diocese of San Juan Bautista

Sancti Ioannis Baptistae a Missionibus

Latin Church

The Diocese of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones is a Latin rite suffragan see in southern Paraguay, erected in 1957 and covering the departments of Misiones and Ñeembucú. Its current ordinary, Ósmar Pedro López Benítez, was appointed in 2025.

On the map

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San Juan Bautista, Paraguay, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1957
Catholics
227,000
Priests
30
Territory
21,703 km²

Parishes and churches

31 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Osmar López Benítez
Born
14 June 1975
Birthplace
Maciel

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The cathedral

Catedral San Juan Bautista stands in San Juan Bautista, 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

In the south of the ecclesiastical province of Asunción, a province that takes in all of Paraguay except the pre-diocesan missions, lies a suffragan Latin Catholic see, the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan Bautista (de las Misiones), known in Latin as Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis Baptistae a Missionibus.