Diocese of Caazapá
Ultrasilvana
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Caazapá, Paraguay
The Diocese of Caazapá is a Latin Church diocese in Paraguay, established by Pope Francis on 25 March 2025 from the Diocese of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Asunción. Its first bishop is Marcelo Benítez Martínez, O.F.M.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 March 2025
- Latin
- Ultrasilvana
- Annuario code
- 001005131
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 171,170
- Population
- 194,512
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 88.0%
- Priests
- 20
- Catholics per priest
- 8,559
- Extent
- 9,496 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 18
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
- Marcelo Benítez Martínez
- Born
- 6 September 1956
- Birthplace
- Santa María
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI
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 Pablo, Caazapá stands in Caazapá, 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
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Asunción.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AsunciónAsunción
- Diocese of CaacupéCaacupé
- Diocese of CanindeyúCanindeyú
- Diocese of CarapeguáCarapeguá
- Diocese of Coronel OviedoCoronel Oviedo
- Diocese of EncarnaciónEncarnación
- Diocese of San Juan BautistaSan Juan Bautista
- Diocese of San LorenzoSan Lorenzo
- Diocese of San PedroSan Pedro
- Diocese of VillarricaVillarrica
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Caazapá, in the ecclesiastical province of Asunción in Paraguay, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Caazapá (Latin: Dioecesis Caazapá).
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- . . . ., Caazapá, Paraguay
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.