The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guayaquil ( la, Archidioecesis Guayaquilensis) is an

archdiocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

located in the city of

Guayaquil , motto = Por Guayaquil Independiente en, For Independent Guayaquil , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Ecuador#South America , pushpin_re ...

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 ...

Special churches

*Minor Basilica: ** Basílica de Nuestra Señora de La Merced in Guayaquil

Leadership

;Bishops of Guayaquil *Francisco Xavier de Garaycoa (1838 – 5 Sep 1851), appointed Archbishop of Quito *Tomás Aguirre (22 Jul 1861 – 14 May 1868) *José María Lizarzabaru y Borja, S.J. (22 Nov 1869 – 17 Oct 1877) *Roberto Maria Pozo y Martin, S.J. (13 Nov 1884 – 1909) *Juan María Riera, O.P. (19 Jan 1912 – 20 Nov 1915) *Andrés Machado, S.J. (26 Apr 1916 – 22 Jan 1926) *Carlos María Javier de la Torre (20 Dec 1926 – 8 Sep 1933), appointed Archbishop of Quito (Cardinal in 1953) *Giuseppe Felix Heredia Zurita, S.J. (16 Dec 1937 – 2 Aug 1954) *Cesar Antonio Mosquera Corral* (11 Oct 1954 – 11 Mar 1969) **Became archbishop on 22 Jan 1956 ;Archbishops of Guayaquil *Bernardino Carlos Guillermo Honorato Echeverría Ruiz, O.F.M. (10 Apr 1969 – 7 Dec 1989); elevated to Cardinal in 1994 *

Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín (August 10, 1927 – August 27, 2006), was archbishop of Guayaquil for ten years, and the first member of the prelature of Opus Dei in Ecuador. He was also a distinguished lawyer, frequently consulted about Ecuadoria ...

(7 Dec 1989 – 7 May 2003) *

Antonio Arregui Yarza Antonio Arregui Yarza (born June 3, 1939 in Oñate) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil Ecuador. Yarza is an alumnus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ''Angelicum'' in Rome where he earned Doctorate in can ...

(7 May 2003 – 24 Sep 2015) *Luís Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M. (24 Sep 2015 – present) ;Coadjutor archbishop *

(1988-1989) ;Auxiliary bishops * Luis Tola y Avilés (1863-1871), appointed Bishop of Portoviejo (Porto Vecchio) * Silvio Luis Haro Alvear (1950-1955), appointed Bishop of Ibarra *

José Gabriel Diaz Cueva José Gabriel Díaz Cueva (13 June 1925 – 26 January 2018) was a Catholic bishop. Diaz Cueva was ordained to the priesthood in 1950. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Guayaquil, Ecuador from 1964 to 1967 and from 1975 to 1 ...

(1964-1967), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cuenca *

Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros Durán Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros Durán (23 February 1934 – 29 December 2017) was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic archbishop. Cisneros Durán was ordained to the priesthood in 1957. He subsequently served as an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic A ...

(1967-1969), appointed Bishop of Ambato *

Ernesto Alvarez Alvarez Ernesto, form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to: * ''Ernesto'' (novel) (1953), an unfinished autobiographical novel by Umberto Saba, published posthumously in 1975 ** ''Ernesto'' (film), a 1979 Italian drama loosely ba ...

, S.D.B. (1967-1970 and, as Archbishop (personal title), 1980-1984), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Cuenca in 1970 *

Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (1 January 1934 – 15 November 2020) was an Ecuadorian prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Archbishop of Quito from 2003 to 2010. He became a bishop coadjutor in 1972 and served as an auxiliary in Guayaquil, ...

(1972-1975), appointed Bishop of Azogues; future Cardinal * Hugolino Felix Cerasuolo Stacey, O.F.M. (1975-1985), appointed Bishop of Loja *

Luis Enrique Orellana Ricaurte Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

, S.J. (1978-1986), appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Quito *

Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo ''Jerusalem Delivered'', also known as ''The Liberation of Jerusalem'' ( it, La Gerusalemme liberata ; ), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in ...

, M.C.C.I. (1990-2001) *

Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...

, O.F.M. (1990-2003) *

Aníbal Nieto Guerra Aníbal is the Spanish and Portuguese masculine given name equivalent of Hannibal (q.v.), itself a latinization of the Greek name Hanníbas (Ἀννίβας), derived from “ḥnbʿl” in the Carthaginian language (Carthaginian Punic script, 𐤇 ...

, O.C.D. (2006-2009), appointed Bishop of San Jacinto de Yaguachi *

Marcos Aurelio Pérez Caicedo Marcos may refer to: People with the given name ''Marcos'' *Marcos (given name) Sports ;Surnamed * Dayton Marcos, Negro league baseball team from Dayton, Ohio (early twentieth-century) * Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer * Nélson Marcos, Portugue ...

(2006-2012), appointed Bishop of Babahoyo *

Valter Dario Maggi Valter Dario Maggi (born 12 August 1956) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served more than seven years as the Bishop of Ibarra, Ecuador. Biography Valter Dario Maggi was born in Brignano Gera d’Adda on 12 August 1956. He complet ...

(2008-2011), appointed Bishop of Ibarra *

Guido Iván Minda Chalá Guido is a given name Latinised from the Old High German name Wido. It originated in Medieval Italy. Guido later became a male first name in Austria, Germany, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and Switzerland. The mea ...

(2009-2022) *

Giovanni Battista Piccioli Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...

(2013-2022) *

Bertram Víctor Wick Enzler Bertram may refer to: Places *Bertram, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Australia *Bertram, Iowa, United States, a city *Bertram, Texas, United States, a city *Bertram Building, a historic building in Austin, Texas *Bertram Glacier, Palmer Lan ...

(2013-2015), appointed Bishop of Santo Domingo en Ecuador *

Antonio Crameri Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ...

, S.S.C. (2019-2021) * Gerardo Miguel Nieves Loja (since 2021) ;Other priests of this diocese who became bishops *

Eduardo José Castillo Pino Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the male given name Edward. Another version is Duarte. It may refer to: Association football * Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator * Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese football ...

, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo in 2012

Suffragan dioceses

* Diocese of Babahoyo * Diocese of Daule * Diocese of San Jacinto * Diocese of Santa Elena

Sources

GCatholic.orgDiocese websiteOld website
Guayaquil Roman Catholic dioceses in Ecuador Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Guayaquil Religious organizations established in 1838 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century 1838 establishments in Ecuador {{Ecuador-RC-diocese-stub

Special churches

Leadership

Suffragan dioceses

See also

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