The Roman Catholic
Metropolitan
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* Metropolitan county, a typ ...
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 associat ...
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" ...
in
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: ' ...
.
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 (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 (1963-1967)
Auxiliary bishops
*
Luis Alfredo Carvajal Rosales (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
*
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 ...
(2012-2019), appointed Archbishop here
*
Vicente Horacio Saeteros Sierra (2020-
Suffragan dioceses
*
Diocese of Santo Domingo in Ecuador
See also
*
Roman Catholicism in Ecuador
The Catholic Church in Ecuador comprises only a Latin hierarchy, united in a national episcopal conference, which comprises:
* four ecclesiastical provinces, each province is headed by the Metropolitanan archbishop of an archdiocese, and a total of ...
Sources
GCatholic.orgDiocese 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
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