Episcopal Diocese of Central Ecuador
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The Episcopal Diocese of Central Ecuador ( es, Iglesia Episcopal del Ecuador - Diócesis Central) is a missionary church of the
Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...
for the interior region of
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 ...
with headquarters in
Quito Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley o ...
. It forms part of Province IX of the Episcopal Church. The current bishop is
Juan Carlos Quiñonez ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...
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)
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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 based in Ecuador Province 9 of the Episcopal Church (United States) {{anglican-diocese-stub