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Archdiocese of Asunción

Ss.mae Assumptionis

Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Asunción, Paraguay

The Archdiocese of Asunción is the primatial see of Paraguay, established as the Diocese of Paraguay in 1547 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1929. It is led by Cardinal Adalberto Martínez Flores and its see is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1 July 1547
Latin
Ss.mae Assumptionis
Patron
Our Lady of the Assumption
Annuario code
001000745

The see in figures

Catholics
1,660,000
Population
2,063,480
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
80.4%
Priests
81
Catholics per priest
20,494
Extent
2,582 km²
Catholics per km²
643

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
Adalberto Martínez Flores
Born
8 July 1951
Birthplace
Asunción

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 Our Lady of the Assumption stands in Asunción, 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 Asunción

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

In Paraguay, the Roman Catholic Church maintains the Archdiocese of the Blessed Assumption (Latin: Archidioecesis Sanctissimae Assumptionis), an ecclesiastical territory of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.