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.
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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.