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Province 9 Of The Episcopal Church (United States)
Province 9 (IX) is one of nine ecclesiastical provinces making up the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It comprises seven dioceses in Latin America and the Caribbean. Julio Cesar Holguin Khoury of the Diocese of the Dominican Republic serves as president and Victor Scantlebury of the Diocese of Central Ecuador serves as vice president. Dioceses of Province IX *Colombia (Bogotá) *Dominican Republic * Central Ecuador * Litoral Ecuador (Guayaquil) *Honduras (San Pedro Sula) *Puerto Rico *Venezuela (Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...) References and external links * * Ecclesiastical provinces of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America {{anglican-diocese-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not part of, the surrounding department of Cundinamarca. Bogotá is a territorial entity of the first order, with the same administrative status as the departments of Colombia. It is the political, economic, administrative, and industrial center of the country. Bogotá was founded as the capital of the New Kingdom of Granada on 6 August 1538 by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada after a harsh expedition into the Andes conquering the Muisca, the indigenous inhabitants of the Altiplano. Santafé (its name after 1540) became the seat of the government of the Spanish Royal Audiencia of the New Kingdom of Granada (cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of Venezuela
The Episcopal Diocese of Venezuela is an Anglican diocese in Venezuela. It forms part of Province 9 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Province IX of the Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church. The current bishop is Orlando Guerrero Torres. The diocese became part of TEC in August 2003. Bishops # Guy Marshall (1972–1974; previously suffragan bishop (Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago, of Trinidad and Tobago) for Venezuela since 1967) # Haydn Jones (bishop), Haydn Jones (1976-1986) # Onell Soto (1987-1995) # Orlando Guerrero Torres (1995-Present) References External links Episcopal Diocese of Venezuela Dioceses of the Episcopal Church (United States), Venezuela Protestantism in Venezuela Province 9 of the Episcopal Church (United States) {{anglican-diocese-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of Puerto Rico
The Episcopal Diocese of Puerto Rico ( es, Diócesis Episcopal de Puerto Rico) is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in Puerto Rico. Under Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was part of a Roman Catholic-affiliated monarchical Spanish government for over 400 years. Towards the end of that period, in the late 1870s, the Spanish government in Puerto Rico, at the behest of the Anglican bishop of Antigua, allowed the construction of the first Protestant temple in Puerto Rico, the Anglican Holy Trinity church in Ponce, to serve the spiritual needs of British merchant marines serving the port of Ponce. Severe restrictions were imposed on the church, such as not using its front door nor ringing the church bell which the British monarch, Queen Victoria provided each Anglican Church, so as to not attract local residents to the congregation. The second Protestant temple in Puerto Rico was established by the Anglican church in the village of Isabel Segunda on the island of Vieques. The United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula () is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 671,460 in the central urban area (2020 calculation) and a population of 1,445,598 in its metropolitan area in 2020, it is the nation's primary industrial center and second largest city after the capital Tegucigalpa, and the largest city in Central America that isn't a capital city. History Before the arrival of the Spanish, the Sula Valley was home to approximately 50,000 native inhabitants. The area that is home to the modern city served as a local trade hub for the Mayan and Aztec civilizations. The Spanish conquest brought about a demographic collapse from which the native population would never recover. On 27 June 1536, Don Pedro de Alvarado founded a Spanish town beside the Indian settlement of Choloma, with the name of Villa de Señor Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of Honduras
The Episcopal Diocese of Honduras is an Anglican diocese in Honduras. It forms part of Province IX of the Episcopal Church. The third and current bishop is Lloyd Emmanuel Allen. Bishops # Hugo Pina-Lopez (1978-1980) # Leo Frade Leopold "Leo" Frade (born October 10, 1943) is the third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida and former Bishop of Honduras. Education Frade was born in Havana, Cuba, on 10 October 1943 to devout MethodistsWebsite of the Episcopal Diocese of Honduras {{DEFAULTSORT:Honduras Honduras [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guayaquil
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Episcopal Diocese Of Litoral Ecuador
The Episcopal Diocese of Litoral Ecuador ( es, Iglesia Episcopal del Ecuador - Diócesis Litoral) is a missionary church of the Anglican Communion for the coastal region of Ecuador with headquarters in Guayaquil. It forms part of Province IX of the Episcopal Church. The third and current bishop is Cristobal Olmedo Leon Lozano Cristóbal Olemdo León Lozano is the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Litoral Ecuador. He was elected on August 4, 2018 to succeed Alfredo Morante España. He was consecrated by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on March 30, 2019 at the Phi .... Bishops # Luis Caisapanta (1988-1991) * Martiniano García Montiel (1992-1994) (Administrator) # Alfredo Terencio Morante España (1994-2019) # Cristobal Leon Lozano (2019-Present) Anglicanism in South America Protestantism in Ecuador Litoral Ecuador Religious organisations based in Ecuador Province 9 of the Episcopal Church (United States) {{anglican-diocese-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of Colombia
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Ecclesiastical Province
An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction Jurisdiction (from Latin 'law' + 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice. In federations like the United States, areas of jurisdiction apply to local, state, and federal levels. Jur ... in Christianity, Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of several diocese, dioceses (or eparchy, eparchies), one of them being the archdiocese (or archeparchy), headed by a metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all other bishops of the province. In the Greco-Roman world, ''ecclesia'' ( grc, ἐκκλησία; la, ecclesia) was used to refer to a lawful assembly, or a called legislative body. As early as Pythagoras, the word took on the additional meaning of a community with shared beliefs. This is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of Central Ecuador
The Episcopal Diocese of Central Ecuador ( es, Iglesia Episcopal del Ecuador - Diócesis Central) is a missionary church of the Anglican Communion for the interior region of Ecuador with headquarters in Quito. It forms part of Province IX of the Episcopal Church. The current bishop is Juan Carlos Quiñonez Mera. He was consecrated on May 17, 2022 in the Catedra de El Senor in Quito.. Bishops # Adrián D. Caceres (1970-1990) # Neptalí Larrea Moreno (1990-2004) # Wilfrido Ramos-Orench Wilfrido Ramos-Orench (born May 4, 1940) is an Episcopal bishop. From 2014-2017 he served as the Provisional Bishop of the Diocese of Puerto Rico. He was a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Connecticut from 2000 to 2006, and the provisional ... (2007-2009) (Provisional) # Luis Fernando Ruiz (2009-2011) # Victor A. Scantlebury (2011-2020) (Acting) # Juan Carlos Quiñonez, (2022-present) Anglicanism in South America Protestantism in Ecuador Central Ecuador Religious organisations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of The Dominican Republic
The Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic ( es, Iglesia Episcopal Dominicana) is the diocese of the Anglican Communion which covers all of the Dominican Republic. It is in Province IX of The Episcopal Church and includes about 60 parishes. Its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Epiphany in the see city of Santo Domingo. Moisés Quezada Mota is the current diocesan bishop. History Benjamin Isaac Wilson, a teacher of the Christian faith, brought Anglicanism to the Dominican Republic in 1897 when he immigrated from the Virgin Islands. Wilson was ordained a priest the following year by James Theodore Holly, bishop of the Independent Haitian Episcopal Church. The American Episcopal Church began missionary work in the Dominican Republic when the country was occupied by the United States Marine Corps. William Wyllie, who arrived in 1918, and Archibald Beer, who arrived in 1920, were the first missionaries. The bishops of Puerto Rico and Haiti supervised the mission territory fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
