The Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral ( es, Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Rosario) also called Puyo Cathedral is a religious building that is located in the central district 12 de Mayo in the city of Puyo,

Pastaza province Pastaza () is a province in the Oriente of Ecuador located in the eastern jungle. The capital is Puyo, founded on May 12, 1899 and which has 36,700 inhabitants. The city is now accessible by paved roads, a recent development; the main road from ...

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

. The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and functions as the headquarters of the Apostolic Vicariate of Puyo (''Apostolicus Vicariatus puyoensis'') which was created in 1964 with the Bull ''Apostolica praefectura'' of

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...

and whose current name dates from 1976. Its construction took four years and was blessed and inaugurated on May 10, 1972 with the design of architect Reinaldo Flores. As its name implies was dedicated to the Virgin Mary in her title of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii. It highlights its stained glass by an American nun.

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