The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caacupé () is a

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in the

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of Archdiocese of Asunción, which covers all and only

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. Its

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episcopal see is a

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and National Shrine: Catedral Basílica Nuestra Señora de los Milagros, dedicated to Our Lady of Miracles, in the city of

Caacupé Caacupé (; Guaraní language, Guarani: Ka'akupe , literally: "Behind the Mount") is a city and district in Paraguay. It is the capital of the Department (subnational entity), department of Cordillera Department, Cordillera. The town was founded i ...

, in

Cordillera Department Cordillera () is a department in Paraguay. The capital is the city of Caacupé. History During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this area of the country was going through a serious crisis due to population bellicosity of the Indians f ...

History

* On 2 August 1960, the

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of Caacupé was established on territories split off from the Archdiocese of Asunción (still its Metropolitan) and from the Diocese of Concepción * Promoted on 29 March 1967 as Diocese of Caacupé * It enjoyed Papal visits from

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in May 1988 and

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in July 2015.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 262,724 Catholics (93.0% of 282,481 total) on 4,984 km² in 20 parishes and 2 missions with 29 priests (24 diocesan, 5 religious), 2 deacons, 44 lay religious (7 brothers, 37 sisters), 6 seminarians.

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Roman Catholic dioceses in Paraguay Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Asunción Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century

Religious organizations established in 1960 1960 establishments in Paraguay {{Paraguay-RC-diocese-stub