Diocese of San Lorenzo
Sancti Laurentii
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Lorenzo, Paraguay
The Diocese of San Lorenzo is a Latin rite see in central Paraguay, erected in 2000 from the Archdiocese of Asunción by the bull Magno perfundimur. It is a suffragan of Asunción, with the Cathedral of St. Lawrence as its seat.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 May 2000
- Latin
- Sancti Laurentii
- Patron
- Saint Lawrence
- Annuario code
- 001002921
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 713,136
- Population
- 792,374
- Catholic share
- 90.0%
- Extent
- 1,924 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 371
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
- Joaquín Hermes Robledo Romero
- Born
- 26 September 1950
- Birthplace
- Asunción
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 Lorenzo stands in San Lorenzo, 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 CarapeguáCarapeguá
- Diocese of Coronel OviedoCoronel Oviedo
- Diocese of EncarnaciónEncarnación
- Diocese of San Juan BautistaSan Juan Bautista
- Diocese of San PedroSan Pedro
- Diocese of VillarricaVillarrica
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cerro Corá 780, c/Saturio Ríos, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
- Telephone
- 981.716.267
- [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].