Diocese of Santo Domingo en Ecuador
Sancti Dominici in Aequatoria
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Santo Domingo en Ecuador, Ecuador
Latin-rite diocese seated in Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Portoviejo. Erected on 5 January 1987 as the Territorial Prelature of Santo Domingo de los Colorados from territory of the Archdiocese of Quito and elevated to diocese on 8 August 1996. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of La Ascension del Senor; Bishop Bertram Victor Wick Enzler has led it since March 2015.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1987
- Latin
- Sancti Dominici in Aequatoria
- Annuario code
- 001002981
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 653,000
- Population
- 763,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 85.6%
- Priests
- 84
- Catholics per priest
- 7,774
- Extent
- 8,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 77
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
- Bertram Victor Wick Enzler
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 La Ascension del Senor, Santo Domingo stands in Santo Domingo en Ecuador, 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
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Portoviejo.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of PortoviejoPortoviejo
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In northern Ecuador, the Latin Church maintains the Diocese of Santo Domingo in Ecuador (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Dominici in Aequatoria), a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Portoviejo. Its cathedral, the Catedral La Ascensión del Señor, dedicated to the Ascension, stands in the episcopal see of Santo Domingo de Los Colorados in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province, where a future cathedral, the Catedral El Buen Pastor, dedicated to the Good Shepherd, is also under construction.
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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.