Roman Catholic Diocese of Santo Domingo in Ecuador
Diocese of Santo Domingo en Ecuador Dioecesis Sancti Dominici in Aequatoria | |
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The Diocese of Santo Domingo in Ecuador (
Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Dominici in Aequatoria) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in northern Ecuador. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Portoviejo
.
Its
Santo Domingo de Los Colorados in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province, where a future cathedral is also under construction, the Catedral El Buen Pastor, dedicated to the Good Shepherd
.
History
- Erected on 5 January 1987 as Territorial Prelature of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, on territory split off from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quito
- On 8 August 1996 elevated to bishopric as Diocese of Santo Domingo de los Colorados.
- Renamed on 18 June 2008 as the Diocese of Santo Domingo en Ecuador.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 785,000 Catholics (92.4% of 850,000 total) on 8,500 km² in 57 parishes and 381 missions with 87 priests (56 diocesan, 31 religious), 2 deacons, 120 lay religious (33 brothers, 87 sisters) and 18 seminarians.
Episcopal ordinaries
- Territorial Prelate of Santo Domingo de Los Colorados
- Archdiocese of Quito(Ecuador) (1983.07.16 – 1987.01.05)
- Suffragan Bishops of Santo Domingo de Los Colorados
- Emilio Lorenzo Stehle (see above 8 August 1996 – retired 11 May 2002); died 16 May 2017
- Wilson Abraham Moncayo Jalil (11 May 2002 – 18 June 2008 see below)
- Suffragan Bishops of Santo Domingo in Ecuador
- Wilson Abraham Moncayo Jalil (see above 18 June 2008 – death 12 March 2012)
- Jesuit Order (S.J.) (born Panama) (2012.03.15 – 2015.03.24), former Bishop of Ibarra(Ecuador) (2004.02.14 – retired 2011.03.25)
- Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guayaquil(Ecuador) (2013.10.26 – 2015.03.24).
See also
- List of Catholic Dioceses in Ecuador
- Roman Catholicism in Ecuador
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
References
Sources and external links
- GCatholic.org entry, with Google map and satellite photo - data for all sections
- Catholic Hierarchy entry
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