Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco Paraguayo
Ciachen(sis) in Paraquaria Natione
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Chaco Paraguayo, Paraguay
Latin-rite apostolic vicariate in the Chaco region of Paraguay, erected 11 March 1948 by Pope Pius XII from the then Diocese of Concepcion y Chaco. Its seat is in Fuerte Olimpo and it covers about 96,300 square kilometers of missionary territory with 10 parishes.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 March 1948
- Latin
- Ciachen(sis) in Paraquaria Natione
- Annuario code
- 001000397
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 24,500
- Population
- 27,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 90.7%
- Priests
- 12
- Catholics per priest
- 2,042
- Extent
- 96,300 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.3
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, S.D.B.
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 María Auxiliadora stands in Chaco Paraguayo, 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.
History
The city of Fuerte Olimpo in Paraguay is the seat of the Vicariate Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo, a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church whose Latin style is Apostolicus Vicariatus Ciachensis in Paraquaria Natione.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Casa Episcopal, Avda. Bernardino Caballero, Barrio María Auxiliadora, Fuerte Olimpo, Alto Paraguay, Paraguay
- Telephone
- [0497]281.012; fax [021]445.752
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.