Diocese of Tulcán, Ecuador 🇪🇨

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Tulcán / Tulcanen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Quito

Neighbouring Dioceses: Ibarra (↙), Esmeraldas (←), Tumaco (↖), Pasto (↗), San Miguel de Sucumbíos (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1965.03.17: Established as Diocese of Tulcán / Tulcanen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Ibarra and became suffragan of Quito)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2023.05.16 – ...):

Bishop Carlos Washington Yépez Naranjo (53)

Monsignors (3)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Tulcán (Roman Rite)

Bishop Carlos Washington Yépez Naranjo (53)
(2023.05.16 – ...)

Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador)

Hagan lo que Él les diga

Born:	1972.10.15 (Pallatanga, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	2003.03.26
Consecrated Bishop:	2023.07.22

Priest of Riobamba (Ecuador) (2003.03.26 – 2023.05.16)

Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador) (2023.05.16 – ...)

Bishop Vicente Danilo Echeverría Verdesoto (64)
(Apostolic Administrator 2021.08.06 – 2023.05.16)

Fr. Luis Bernardino Núñez Villacís
(2021.07.05 – 2021.08.06 not possessed)

Born:	1963.05.27 (San Juan Bautista de Ambato, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1990.06.29

Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador) (2021.07.05 – 2021.08.06 not possessed)

Bishop Vicente Danilo Echeverría Verdesoto (64)
(Apostolic Administrator 2021.06.08 – 2021.07.05)

Bishop Fausto Feliciano Gaibor García
(2011.05.03 – 2021.06.04)

Tomado de entre los hombres y constituidi a su favor

Born:	1952.01.24 (Guaranda, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1981.01.24
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.12.02
Died:	2021.06.04 (Tulcán, Ecuador † 69)

Priest of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1981.01.24 – 2006.10.31)

Titular Bishop of Naraggara (2006.10.31 – 2011.05.03)

Auxiliary Bishop of Riobamba (Ecuador) (2006.10.31 – 2011.05.03)

Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador) (2011.05.03 – 2021.06.04)

Bishop Luis Antonio Sánchez Armijos, S.D.B. (82)
(2002.06.15 – 2010.02.22)

Bishop emeritus of Machala (Ecuador)

Apacienra mis ovejas

Born:	1943.07.27 (Olmedo, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1975.01.31
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.07.27

Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador) (2002.06.15 – 2010.02.22)

General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador (2005 – 2008)

Bishop of Machala (Ecuador) (2010.02.22 – 2012.10.22)

Bishop Germán Trajano Pavón Puente
(1989.01.28 – 2001.04.19)

Born:	1936.10.28 (Quito, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1960.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1989.02.25
Died:	2025.02.22 (Quito, Ecuador † 88)

Priest of Quito (Ecuador) (1960.06.29 – 1989.01.28)

Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador) (1989.01.28 – 2001.04.19)

Bishop of Ambato (Ecuador) (2001.04.19 – 2015.01.20)

Bishop Luis Clemente de la Vega Rodriguez
(1965.03.17 – 1987.05.04)

Born:	1921.08.29 (San Isidro, Ecuador)
Ordained Priest:	1946.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1965.05.26
Died:	1987.05.04 († 65)

Priest of Tulcán (Ecuador) (1946.06.29 – 1965.03.17)

Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador) (1965.03.17 – 1987.05.04)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral San Miguel, Tulcán, Carchi
National Shrine: Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de la Gruta de La Paz, La Paz, Carchi

Ibarra (↙), Esmeraldas (←), Tumaco (↖), Pasto (↗), San Miguel de Sucumbíos (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 3,784 km²

Population: 145,034 Catholics (76.3% of 190,125 total)

Pastoral Centres: 25 parishes

Personnel: 38 priests (35 diocesan, 3 religious), 62 religious (9 brothers, 53 sisters), 6 seminarians