Diocese of Guaranda, Ecuador

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Guaranda / Guaranden(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Quito

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1957.12.29: Established as Diocese of Guaranda / Guaranden(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Riobamba and became suffragan of Cuenca)
1961.09.11: Became suffragan of Quito

Present Prelates

Bishop (2018.10.04 – ...):

Bishop Hermenegildo José Torres Asanza (57)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Guaranda (Roman Rite)

Bishop Hermenegildo José Torres Asanza (57)
(2018.10.04 – ...)

Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador)

Born:	1966.06.02 (San Roque, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1992.07.12
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.12.12

Priest of Machala (Ecuador) (1992.07.12 – 2007.10.30)

Titular Bishop of Centenaria (2007.10.30 – 2018.10.04)

Auxiliary Bishop of Machala (Ecuador) (2007.10.30 – 2018.10.04)

Apostolic Administrator of Machala (Ecuador) (2012.10.22 – 2013.07.20)

Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (2018.10.04 – ...)

Bishop Skiper Bladimir Yánez Calvachi (51)
(2014.06.24 – 2018.03.27)

Bishop of Babahoyo (Ecuador)

Tu solus Domine

Born:	1972.02.05 (Machachi, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1996.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2014.08.15

Priest of Quito (Ecuador) (1996.06.29 – 2014.06.24)

Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (2014.06.24 – 2018.03.27)

Bishop of Babahoyo (Ecuador) (2018.03.27 – ...)

Bishop Marcos Aurelio Pérez Caicedo (56) (later Archbishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 2014 – 2014.06.24)

Bishop Ángel Polivio Sánchez Loaiza (77)
(2004.11.25 – 2013.07.20)

Bishop emeritus of Machala (Ecuador)

Born:	1946.09.10 (Ayapamba, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1975.08.03
Consecrated Bishop:	2004.12.18

Priest of Machala (Ecuador) (1975.08.03 – 2004.11.25)

Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (2004.11.25 – 2013.07.20)

General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador (2008 – 2014)

Bishop of Machala (Ecuador) (2013.07.20 – 2022.09.27)

Bishop Miguel Angel Aguilar Miranda (84)
(1991.04.11 – 2004.02.14)

Military Ordinary emeritus of Ecuador (Ecuador)

Born:	1939.04.05 (Quito, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1965.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1991.05.04

Priest of Quito (Ecuador) (1965.06.29 – 1991.04.11)

Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1991.04.11 – 2004.02.14)

Military Ordinary of Ecuador (Ecuador) (2004.02.14 – 2014.06.18)

Bishop Raúl Holguer López Mayorga (97)
(1980.05.24 – 1990.06.18)

Bishop emeritus of Latacunga (Ecuador)

Born:	1926.08.24 (Mocha, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1951.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1973.04.29

Auxiliary Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1973.03.30 – 1974.08.03)

Titular Bishop of Casæ in Numidia (1973.03.30 – 1980.05.24)

Coadjutor Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1974.08.03 – 1980.05.24)

Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1980.05.24 – 1990.06.18)

Bishop of Latacunga (Ecuador) (1990.06.18 – 2003.02.19)

Bishop Cándido Rada Senosiáin, S.D.B.
(1960.03.31 – 1980.05.24)

Born:	1905.05.23 (Chile)
Ordained Priest:	1931.07.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1945.08.12
Died:	1995.08.07 († 90)

Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud (Chile) (1945.06.09 – 1949.12.22)

Titular Bishop of Pinara (1949.12.22 – 1960.03.31)

Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1960.03.31 – 1980.05.24)

Fr. Gilberto Tapia
(1957.12.10 – 1958 not possessed)

Born:	1914.01.02 (Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1942.07.26
Died:	1959 († 45)

Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1957.12.10 – 1958 not possessed)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Raúl Holguer López Mayorga (97) (1974.08.03 – 1980.05.24)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Raúl Holguer López Mayorga (97) (1973.03.30 – 1974.08.03)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral San Pedro, Guaranda, Bolívar
National Shrine: Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora María Natividad del Guayco, La Magdalena, Bolívar

Babahoyo (←), Latacunga (↑), Ambato (↗), Riobamba (↘)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 3,254 km²

Population: 162,042 Catholics (80.4% of 201,533 total)

Pastoral Centres: 23 parishes

Personnel: 33 priests (25 diocesan, 8 religious), 69 religious (11 brothers, 58 sisters), 8 seminarians