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Ecuador
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2025.01.08

Ecuador Fr. Moacir Goulart de Figueredo, M.S.C., was consecrated as Vicar Apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos (Ecuador)

2024.12.07

Ecuador Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador, was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Famiglia di Nazareth a Centocelle

2024.10.23

Ecuador Fr. Moacir Goulart de Figueredo, M.S.C., was elected Vicar Apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Celmo Lazzari, C.S.I., Vicar Apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos (Ecuador), was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Napo (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Jesús Esteban Sádaba Pérez, O.F.M. Cap., resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Napo (Ecuador)

2024.10.15

Ecuador Msgr. Simón Bolívar Sánchez Carrión, Priest of Loja (Ecuador) and Prelate of Honour of His Holiness, was elected Titular Archbishop of Rosella and Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras

2024.06.21

Ecuador Fr. Ramiro Alejandro Herrera Herrera was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Medeli and Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo (Ecuador)

2024.04.19

Ecuador Fr. Ramiro Alejandro Herrera Herrera, Priest of Guayaquil (Ecuador), was elected Titular Bishop of Medeli and Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo (Ecuador)

2023.09.09

Ecuador Fr. Fernando Ortega Ortega was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Thizica and Auxiliary Bishop of Cuenca (Ecuador)

2023.07.22

Ecuador Fr. Carlos Washington Yépez Naranjo was consecrated as Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador)

2023.06.09

Ecuador Fr. Fernando Ortega Ortega, Priest of Ambato (Ecuador), was elected Titular Bishop of Thizica and Auxiliary Bishop of Cuenca (Ecuador)

2023.05.31

Ecuador Bishop Adelio Pasqualotto, C.S.I., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Napo (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Jesús Esteban Sádaba Pérez, O.F.M. Cap., was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Napo (Ecuador)

2023.05.16

Ecuador Bishop Vicente Danilo Echeverría Verdesoto resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Tulcán (Ecuador)

Ecuador Fr. Carlos Washington Yépez Naranjo, Priest of Riobamba (Ecuador), was elected Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador)

2023.04.19

Ecuador Fr. José Miguel Asimbaya Moreno was consecrated as Military Ordinary of Ecuador (Ecuador)

2023.01.31

Ecuador Fr. José Miguel Asimbaya Moreno, Priest of Quito (Ecuador), was elected Military Ordinary of Ecuador (Ecuador)

2022.12.10

Ecuador Fr. Ángel Maximiliano Ordoñez Sigcho was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Phelbes and Auxiliary Bishop of Quito (Ecuador)

2022.10.17

Ecuador Fr. Ángel Maximiliano Ordoñez Sigcho, Priest of Quito (Ecuador), was elected Titular Bishop of Phelbes and Auxiliary Bishop of Quito (Ecuador)

2022.09.27

Ecuador Bishop Vicente Horacio Saeteros Sierra, Titular Bishop of Rusuccuru and Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo (Ecuador), was appointed as Bishop of Machala (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Ángel Polivio Sánchez Loaiza resigned as Bishop of Machala (Ecuador)

2022.09.21

Ecuador Bishop José Bolivar Piedra Aguirre, Titular Bishop of Maronana, Auxiliary Bishop of Cuenca (Ecuador) and Apostolic Administrator of Riobamba (Ecuador), was appointed as Bishop of Riobamba (Ecuador)

2022.08.06

Ecuador Fr. Gustavo Adolfo Rosales Escobar was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Glavinitza and Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

2022.06.25

Ecuador Fr. Krzysztof Kudławiec was consecrated as Bishop of Daule (Ecuador)

2022.06.03

Ecuador Fr. Gustavo Adolfo Rosales Escobar, Priest of Cuenca (Ecuador), was elected Titular Bishop of Glavinitza and Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

2022.04.22

Ecuador Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M., resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Daule (Ecuador)

Ecuador Fr. Krzysztof Kudławiec, Priest of Rzeszów (Poland), was elected Bishop of Daule (Ecuador)

2022.03.27

Ecuador Mr. Mauricio López Oropeza was appointed as Second Vice-President of Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA)

2022.03.17

Ecuador Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador, was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Daule (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Giovanni Battista Piccioli resigned as Bishop of Daule (Ecuador)

2022.02.02

Ecuador Diocese of Daule was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guayaquil and became suffragan of Guayaquil) (Ecuador)

Ecuador Diocese of Santa Elena was established (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guayaquil and became suffragan of Guayaquil) (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Guido Iván Minda Chalá, Titular Bishop of Nisa in Lycia and Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador), was appointed as Bishop of Santa Elena (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Giovanni Battista Piccioli, Titular Bishop of Patara and Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador), was appointed as Bishop of Daule (Ecuador)

2021.12.04

Ecuador Fr. Gerardo Miguel Nieves Loja was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Numidia, Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Coadjutor Bishop emeritus of Riobamba (Ecuador)

2021.10.31

Italy Archbishop Giacomo Guido Ottonello resigned as Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia

2021.10.23

Ecuador Bishop-elect Gerardo Miguel Nieves Loja was appointed as Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Numidia and Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

2021.08.06

Ecuador Bishop Vicente Danilo Echeverría Verdesoto, Auxiliary Bishop of Quito (Ecuador), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Tulcán (Ecuador)

Ecuador Fr. Luis Bernardino Núñez Villacís resigned as Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador)

2021.07.05

Ecuador Bishop Eugenio Arellano Fernández, M.C.C.J., resigned as Vicar Apostolic of Esmeraldas (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Antonio Crameri, S.S.C., Titular Bishop of Apollonia and Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador), was appointed as Vicar Apostolic of Esmeraldas (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Vicente Danilo Echeverría Verdesoto resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Tulcán (Ecuador)

Ecuador Fr. Luis Bernardino Núñez Villacís was appointed as Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador)

2021.06.24

France Archbishop Alain Paul Charles Lebeaupin, Titular Archbishop of Vico Equense, passed away at 76

2021.06.08

Ecuador Bishop Vicente Danilo Echeverría Verdesoto, Auxiliary Bishop of Quito (Ecuador), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Tulcán (Ecuador)

2021.06.04

Ecuador Bishop Fausto Feliciano Gaibor García, Bishop of Tulcán (Ecuador), passed away at 69

2021.04.28

Ecuador Bishop-elect Gerardo Miguel Nieves Loja resigned as Coadjutor Bishop of Riobamba (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop Julio Parrilla Díaz resigned as Bishop of Riobamba (Ecuador)

Ecuador Bishop José Bolivar Piedra Aguirre, Auxiliary Bishop of Cuenca (Ecuador), was appointed as Apostolic Administrator of Riobamba (Ecuador)

2021.01.23

Ecuador Fr. Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés was consecrated as Vicar Apostolic of Zamora (Ecuador)

2020.12.09

Ecuador Archbishop José Mario Ruiz Navas, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Portoviejo (Ecuador), passed away at 90

2020.11.17

Ecuador Fr. Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés, Priest of Loja (Ecuador), was elected Vicar Apostolic of Zamora (Ecuador)

2020.11.16

France Archbishop Alain Paul Charles Lebeaupin resigned as Apostolic Nuncio to European Union

2020.11.15

Ecuador Cardinal Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via and Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Quito (Ecuador), passed away at 86

2020.11.11

Ecuador Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M., Metropolitan Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador, was appointed as President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador

Ecuador Archbishop Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus, S.D.B., Metropolitan Archbishop of Quito (Ecuador), was appointed as Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador

Ecuador Bishop Eugenio Arellano Fernández, M.C.C.J., resigned as President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador

Ecuador Bishop David Israel de la Torre Altamirano, SS.CC., Auxiliary Bishop of Quito (Ecuador), was appointed as General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador

2020.10.27

Ecuador Fr. Gerardo Miguel Nieves Loja, Priest of Riobamba (Ecuador), was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Riobamba (Ecuador)

2020.08.15

Ecuador Fr. Vicente Horacio Saeteros Sierra was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Rusuccuru and Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo (Ecuador)

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