Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones

Diocese of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis Baptistae a Missionibus
Location
Country	Paraguay
Metropolitan	Asunción
Statistics
Area	21,703 km2 (8,380 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 201,000 198,000 (98.5%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Pedro Collar Noguera
Bishops emeritus	Mario Melanio Medina Salinas
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Juan Bautista (de las Misiones) (

• On January 19, 1957, the Diocese of San Juan Bautista (de Las Misiones) was established on territories split off from the Metropolitan
  Archdiocese of Asunción and from the Diocese of Villarrica^[1]

As per 2014, it pastorally served 227,000 Catholics (98.3% of 231,000 total) on 21,700 km² in 30 parishes and 139 missions with 35 priests (19 diocesan, 16 religious), 2 deacons, 63 lay religious (18 brothers, 45 sisters) and 5 seminarians.[2]

Bishops

(all

Episcopal ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones ^[3]

• Auxiliary Bishop of Asunción
  (Paraguay) (1954.12.01 – 1957.01.19)
• Carlos Milcíades Villalba Aquino (July 25, 1978 – retired July 22, 1999), died January 8, 2016
• Mario Melanio Medina Salinas (July 22, 1999 – retired 2017.02.16); previously Bishop of
  Coadjutor Bishop
  of San Juan Bautista (1997.07.08 – succession 1999.07.22)
• Pedro Collar Noguera (2017.02.16 – ...); previously Titular Bishop of
  Thamugadi (2016.04.23 – 2017.02.16) as Auxiliary Bishop of Ciudad del Este
  (Paraguay) (2016.04.23 – 2017.02.16).

• Mario Melanio Medina Salinas (1997-1999)

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Paraguay

Sources and external links

• GCatholic.org, with Google map and - satellite photo
• Catholic Hierarchy

References

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