Diocese of Babahoyo, Ecuador 🇪🇨

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Babahoyo / Babahoien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Guayaquil

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1948.07.15: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Los Ríos / Fluminum (Latin) (from Diocese of Guayaquil)
1951.09.10: Promoted as Territorial Prelature of Los Ríos / Fluminum (Latin) (became suffragan of Quito)
1956.01.22: Became suffragan of Guayaquil
1994.08.22: Promoted as Diocese of Babahoyo / Babahoien(sis) (Latin)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2018.03.27 – ...):

Bishop Skiper Bladimir Yánez Calvachi (53)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Babahoyo (Roman Rite)

Bishop Skiper Bladimir Yánez Calvachi (53)
(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 (57) (later Archbishop)
(2012.02.10 – 2016.06.20)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuenca (Ecuador)

Oportet illum regnare

Born:	1967.07.14 (Daule, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1992.03.19
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.07.22

Priest of Guayaquil (Ecuador) (1992.03.19 – 2006.06.10)

Titular Bishop of Maastricht (2006.06.10 – 2012.02.10)

Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador) (2006.06.10 – 2012.02.10)

Bishop of Babahoyo (Ecuador) (2012.02.10 – 2016.06.20)

Apostolic Administrator of Guaranda (Ecuador) (2014 – 2014.06.24)

Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador (2014.05.08 – 2017.04.28)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuenca (Ecuador) (2016.06.20 – ...)

Bishop Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez, O.F.M. (84) (later Archbishop)
(2008.03.27 – 2010.09.11)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Quito (Ecuador)

Deus meus et omnia

Born:	1941.03.18 (Toacazo, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1970.12.12
Consecrated Bishop:	2003.03.15

Titular Bishop of Sullectum (2003.02.01 – 2008.03.27)

Vicar Apostolic of Zamora (Ecuador) (2003.02.01 – 2008.03.27)

Bishop of Babahoyo (Ecuador) (2008.03.27 – 2010.09.11)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Quito (Ecuador) (2010.09.11 – 2019.04.05)

President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador (2014.05.08 – 2017.04.28)

Bishop Jesús Ramón Martínez de Ezquerecocha Suso
(1994.08.22 – 2008.03.27)

Born:	1935.08.31 (Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1959.08.09
Consecrated Bishop:	1994.10.15
Died:	2013.02.16 († 77)

Apostolic Administrator of Machala (Ecuador) (1980 – 1982.01.14)

Bishop-Prelate of Los Ríos (Ecuador) (1984.06.28 – 1994.08.22)

Bishop of Babahoyo (Ecuador) (1994.08.22 – 2008.03.27)

Prelates of Los Ríos (Roman Rite)

Bishop-elect Jesús Ramón Martínez de Ezquerecocha Suso
(1984.06.28 – 1994.08.22)

(see above)

Bishop Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia
(1963.11.29 – 1982.05.12)

Born:	1915.10.17 (Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1943.06.27
Consecrated Bishop:	1964.01.30
Died:	2018.04.24 († 102)

Apostolic Administrator of Los Ríos (Ecuador) (1957 – 1963.11.29)

Titular Bishop of Pudentiana (1963.11.29 – 1978.01.05)

Bishop-Prelate of Los Ríos (Ecuador) (1963.11.29 – 1982.05.12)

Fr. Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia (later Bishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 1957 – 1963.11.29)

Fr. Adolfo Maria Astudillo Morales
(Apostolic Administrator 1951.09.10 – 1957)

Fr. Adolfo Maria Astudillo Morales
(Apostolic Administrator 1948.08.13 – 1951.09.10)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Babahoyo, Los Ríos

Guayaquil (↙), Daule (←), Santo Domingo (↑), Latacunga (↗), Guaranda (→), San Jacinto (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 7,100 km²

Population: 667,695 Catholics (70.0% of 953,850 total)

Pastoral Centres: 30 parishes, 3 missions

Personnel: 41 priests (33 diocesan, 8 religious), 61 religious (11 brothers, 50 sisters), 5 seminarians