Diocese of Encarnación
Sanctissimae Incarnationis
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Encarnación, Paraguay
The Diocese of Encarnación is a Latin rite see in southern Paraguay, erected as a territorial prelature in 1957 and promoted to a diocese in 1990. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Asunción.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1957
- Latin
- Sanctissimae Incarnationis
- Patron
- The Most Holy Incarnation
- Annuario code
- 001001363
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 441,000
- Population
- 546,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 80.8%
- Priests
- 54
- Catholics per priest
- 8,167
- Extent
- 16,525 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 27
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
- Francisco Javier Pistilli Scorzara
- Born
- 26 May 1965
- 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
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación stands in Encarnación, 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 CaazapáCaazapá
- Diocese of CanindeyúCanindeyú
- Diocese of CarapeguáCarapeguá
- Diocese of Coronel OviedoCoronel Oviedo
- 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 Encarnación, in the ecclesiastical province of Asunción in Paraguay, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Encarnación (Latin: Dioecesis Sanctissimae Incarnationis).
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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.