Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guayaquil

Archdiocese of Guayaquil Archidioecesis Guayaquilensis
Cathedral of St. Peter
Location
Country	Ecuador
Ecclesiastical province	Province of Guayaquil
Statistics
Area	18,711 km2 (7,224 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 3,357,000 3,022,000 (90%)
Parishes	221
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	29 January 1838 (Erected as Diocese) 22 January 1956 (Elevated to Archdiocese)
Cathedral	Catedral San Pedro
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Antonio Arregui Yarza
Auxiliary Bishops	Guido Iván Minda Chalá
Bishops emeritus	Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno, O.F.M. Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus
Map
Website
arquidiocesisdeguayaquil.org.ec

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guayaquil (Template:Lang-la) is an archdiocese located in the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador.

Special churches

• Minor Basilica:
  • Basílica de Nuestra Señora de La Merced in Guayaquil

Ordinaries

Bishops of Guayaquil

• Francisco Xavier de Garaycos (1838 – 5 Sep 1851)
• Tomás Aguirre (22 Jul 1861 – 14 May 1868)
• José María Lizarzabaru y Borja, S.J. (22 Nov 1869 – 17 Oct 1877)
• Roberto Maria Pozo y Martin, S.J. (13 Nov 1884 – 1909)
• Juan María Riera, O.P. (19 Jan 1912 – 20 Nov 1915)
• Andrés Machado, S.J. (26 Apr 1916 – 22 Jan 1926)
• Carlos María Javier de la Torre (20 Dec 1926 – 8 Sep 1933)
• Giuseppe Felix Heredia Zurita, S.J. (16 Dec 1937 – 2 Aug 1954)
• Cesar Antonio Mosquera Corral* (11 Oct 1954 – 11 Mar 1969)

Archbishops of Guayaquil

• Bernardino Carlos Guillermo Honorato Echeverría Ruiz, O.F.M. (10 Apr 1969 – 7 Dec 1989)
• Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín (7 Dec 1989 – 7 May 2003)
• Antonio Arregui Yarza (7 May 2003 – 24 Sep 2015)
• Luís Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M. (24 Sep 2015 – present)

*Became Archbishop on 22 Jan 1956

Suffragan dioceses

• Diocese of Babahoyo
• Diocese of San Jacinto de Yaguachi

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Ecuador

Sources

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Diocese website (Old website)