The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Portoviejo ( la, Archidioecesis Portus Veteris) 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

Portoviejo Portoviejo (), also known as San Gregorio de Portoviejo, is a city in Ecuador, and the capital of the Provinces of Ecuador, Province of Manabí Province, Manabí from the Pacific coast. It is still known as the city of the "Royal Tamarind Trees" ...

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 Basilicas: **Basílica de Santísima Virgen de Monserrat in Montecristi
(''Basilica of the Holy Virgin of Montserrat'')

Bishops

Ordinaries

Bishops of Portoviejo *Luis Tola y Avilés (6 Mar 1871 – 1881) *Pedro Schumacher, C.M. (27 Mar 1885 – 15 Jul 1900) *Juan María Riera, O.P. (16 Dec 1907 – 19 Jan 1912), appointed Bishop of Guayaquil *Nicanor Carlos Gavinales Chamorro (30 May 1947 – 17 Feb 1967) *Luis Alfredo Carvajal Rosales (17 Feb 1967 – 6 Aug 1989) *José Mario Ruiz Navas (6 Aug 1989 – 25 February 1994); ''see below'' Archbishops of Portoviejo *

José Mario Ruiz Navas José Mario Ruiz Navas (20 July 1930 – 10 December 2020) was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic archbishop. Ruiz Navas was born in Ecuador and was ordained to the priesthood in 1954. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Latacun ...

(25 February 1994 – 6 Aug 2007); ''see above'' * Lorenzo Voltolini Esti (6 Aug 2007 – 14 Sept 2018) *

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 footba ...

(2 Oct 2019–present)

Coadjutor bishop

Luis Alfredo Carvajal Rosales 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 ...

(1963-1967)

Auxiliary bishops

(1955-1963), appointed Coadjutor here *

Francisco Ovidio Vera Intriago Francisco Ovidio Vera Intriago (October 7, 1941 – April 21, 2014) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained in 1970 for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portoviejo, Ecuador, Vera Intriago was named auxiliary bishop of the Portoviejo Archdioces ...

(1992-2014) * Lorenzo Voltolini Esti (1993-2007), appointed Archbishop here *

(2012-2019), appointed Archbishop here * Vicente Horacio Saeteros Sierra (2020-

Suffragan dioceses

* Diocese of Santo Domingo in Ecuador

Sources

GCatholic.org

Diocese website
Roman Catholic dioceses in Ecuador Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Portoviejo Religious organizations established in 1870 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century {{SouthAm-RC-diocese-stub