Diocese of Babahoyo
Babahoien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Babahoyo, Ecuador
Latin rite diocese in Los Rios Province, Ecuador, with its seat in the city of Babahoyo. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Guayaquil. Its cathedral is the Catedral Nuestra Senora de la Merced (Our Lady of Mercy Cathedral), and the current bishop is Skiper Bladimir Yanez Calvachi.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1948
- Latin
- Babahoien(sis)
- Patron
- Nuestra Señora de la Merced
- Annuario code
- 001000774
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 555,000
- Population
- 751,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 73.9%
- Priests
- 43
- Catholics per priest
- 12,907
- Extent
- 6,531 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 85
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
- Skiper Bladimir Yanez Calvachi
- Born
- 5 February 1972
- Birthplace
- Macachi
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 Nuestra Senora de la Merced, Babahoyo stands in Babahoyo, 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 Guayaquil
A suffragan of Guayaquil.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of DauleDaule
- Archdiocese of GuayaquilGuayaquil
- Diocese of San JacintoSan Jacinto
- Diocese of Santa ElenaSanta Elena
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Babahoyo in Ecuador is home to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Babahoyo (Latin: Dioecesis Babahoiensis), a see within the ecclesiastical province of Guayaquil.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.