Diocese of Latacunga
Latacungen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Latacunga, Ecuador
Latin-rite diocese seated in Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador, erected on 5 December 1963 and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Quito. Its cathedral is the Catedral San Jose in Latacunga. Bishop Geovanni Mauricio Paz Hurtado has led the diocese since November 2016.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 December 1963
- Latin
- Latacungen(sis)
- Patron
- Virgen del Volcán
- Annuario code
- 001001966
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 300,000
- Population
- 351,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 85.5%
- Priests
- 49
- Catholics per priest
- 6,122
- Extent
- 5,093 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 59
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
- Geovanni Mauricio Paz Hurtado
- Born
- 30 November 1962
- Birthplace
- Cotacachi
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 Jose, Latacunga stands in Latacunga, 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 Quito
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Quito.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of QuitoQuito
- Diocese of AmbatoAmbato
- Diocese of GuarandaGuaranda
- Diocese of IbarraIbarra
- Diocese of RiobambaRiobamba
- Diocese of TulcánTulcán
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Latacunga in Ecuador is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese of the same name (Latin: Dioecesis Latacungensis), part of the ecclesiastical province of Quito.
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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.