The Cathedral of the Incarnation () Also Encarnación Cathedral Is the name that receives a religious building affiliated to the

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that is located in the center of the city of Encarnación that is the capital of the Department of

Itapúa Itapúa () is a department in the southern region of Paraguay. The capital is the city of Encarnación. It is divided into 30 districts, more than any other department in the country. History This department was created after the breakup of the ...

in the southern end of the South American country of

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. The current structure dates back to the efforts that began in 1913 and continued between 1928 and 1938 when it was opened. It remounts its history to other churches like the one of 1718 in the present Plaza de Armas and another one of 1848 in the same place. For the celebrations of the Bicentennial one did works of improvement of the enlightenment. The temple follows the Roman or

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and is the seat of the Diocese of Encarnación (''Dioecesis Sanctissimae Incarnationis'') which was created as a

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in 1957 and was promoted to its current status through the bull "Crevisse iam" of the then

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. It is under the pastoral responsibility of Bishop Francisco Javier Pistilli Scorzara.

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Roman Catholic cathedrals in Paraguay Roman Catholic churches completed in 1938 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings {{Paraguay-RC-cathedral-stub

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