Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Asunción

The Archdiocese of Asunción (Latin: Archidioecesis Sanctissimae Assumptionis ) is an Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Asunción, capital of Paraguay.

The Archdiocese was posted on July 1, 1547 as the Diocese of Paraguay, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lima, by Pope Paul III. founded; first bishop was the Spanish Franciscan Juan de los Barrios, OFM. By Pope Pius XI. the diocese was raised on 1 May 1929 Archdiocese; first archbishop was the Paraguayans Sinforiano Bogarin.

The current limits of the Archdiocese are congruent with those of the administration and the district capital of the Republic of Paraguay.

Bishops of Asunción

Bishops

  • Juan de los Barrios, OFM, 1547-1552, then Bishop of Santa Marta
  • Pedro de la Torre, OFM, 1554-1573
  • Alfonso Guerra OP, 1579-1592, then bishop of Michoacán
  • Baltazar de Covarrubias y Múñoz OSA, 1601-1603, Bishop of Nueva Caceres then
  • Martín Ignacio de Loyola, 1603-1606
  • Reginaldo de Lizárraga OP, 1609-1609
  • Lorenzo Pérez de Grado, 1615-1619, then Bishop of Cuzco
  • Tomás de la Torre Gibaja OP, 1620-1628, then Bishop of Córdoba (Tucumán )
  • Cristóbal de Aresti Martínez de Aguilar OSB, 1629-1635, then Bishop of Buenos Aires
  • Francisco de la Serna OSA, 1635-1637, then Bishop of Popayán
  • Sebastian de Pastrana breath, 1687-1700
  • José Cayetano Paravicino OFM, 1738-1747, then Bishop of Trujillo
  • Manuel Antonio de la Torre, 1756-1762, then Bishop of Buenos Aires
  • Luis Velasco, OFM, 1779-1792
  • Nicolás Videla del Pino, 1802-1807, then Bishop of Salta
  • Pedro García Panes OFM, 1807-1838
  • Emmanuele Antonio Palacios, 1865-1879
  • Pietro Giovanni Aponte, 1879-1894

Archbishops

  • Sinforiano Bogarin, 1894-1949
  • Juan José Aníbal Mena Porta, 1949-1970
  • Ismael Rolón SDB, 1970-1989
  • Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos, 1989-2002
  • Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga CSsR, since 2002
  • Edmundo Valenzuela Ponziano Mellid SDB, coadjutor since 2011
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