Archdiocese of Portoviejo
Portus Veteris
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Portoviejo, Ecuador
Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese seated in Portoviejo, Manabi Province, Ecuador. Erected as a diocese on 23 March 1870 and elevated to archdiocese on 25 February 1994, with the Diocese of Santo Domingo en Ecuador as suffragan. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of Jesus del Buen Pastor; Archbishop Eduardo Jose Castillo Pino has led it since October 2019.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 23 March 1870
- Latin
- Portus Veteris
- Annuario code
- 001002650
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,091,143
- Population
- 1,186,025
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 92.0%
- Priests
- 130
- Catholics per priest
- 8,393
- Extent
- 20,342 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 54
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
- Archbishop
- Eduardo Jose Castillo Pino
- Born
- 21 March 1970
- Birthplace
- Guayaquil
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
Cathedral of Jesus del Buen Pastor, Portoviejo stands in Portoviejo, 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 Portoviejo
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Santo Domingo en EcuadorSanto Domingo en Ecuador
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Portoviejo, Ecuador, is home to a Roman Catholic metropolitan archdiocese, known in Latin as Archidioecesis Portus Veteris.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Arzobispado, Casilla 13-01-0024, Avda. Universitaria s/n, entre Alajuela y Ramos y Duarte, Portoviejo, Manabí, Ecuador
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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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.