Diocese of Tulcán
Tulcanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tulcán, Ecuador
Latin-rite diocese seated in Tulcan, Carchi Province, in the northern Ecuadorian highlands on the Colombian border. Established on 17 March 1965, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Quito. Bishop Carlos Washington Yepez Naranjo has led the diocese since May 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 March 1965
- Latin
- Tulcanen(sis)
- Patron
- Virgen de La Paz
- Annuario code
- 001000014
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 176,000
- Population
- 184,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 95.7%
- Priests
- 46
- Catholics per priest
- 3,826
- Extent
- 3,699 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 48
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
- Carlos Washington Yepez Naranjo
- Born
- 15 October 1972
- Birthplace
- Pallatanga
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 de San Miguel Arcángel stands in Tulcán, 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 LatacungaLatacunga
- Diocese of RiobambaRiobamba
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Tulcán, a city in Ecuador, is the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese of the same name (Latin: Dioecesis Tulcanensis), part of the ecclesiastical province of Quito.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Curia Diocesana, Apartado 04-01-0023, Calle 10 de Agosto y Olmedo, Tulcán, Carchi, Ecuador
- Telephone
- [06]2982.699; fax 2980.680
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.