Archdiocese of Asunción

ARCHDIOCESE OF ASUNCIÓN (Archidioecesis Sanctissimae Assumptionis)

Country : Paraguay
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 1547 as Diocese of Paraguay
Elevated 1929 to Archdiocese of Asunción

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Arms of Bishops

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  Juan de los Barrios (1547-1552)

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  Pedro de la Torre (1554-1573)

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  Alfonso Guerra (1579-1592)

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  Baltazar de Covarrubias y Múñoz (1601-1603)

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  Martín Ignacio de Loyola (1603-1606)

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  Reginaldo de Lizárraga (1609-1609)

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  Lorenzo Pérez de Grado (1615-1619)

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  Tomás de la Torre Gibaja (1620-1628)

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  Cristóbal de Aresti Martínez de Aguilar (1629-1635)

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  Francisco de la Serna (1635-1637)

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  Sebastián de Pastrana (1687-1700)

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  José Cayetano Paravicino (1738-1747)

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  Manuel Antonio de la Torre (1756-1762)

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  Luis Velasco (1779-1792)

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  Nicolás Videla del Pino (1802-1807)

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  Pedro García Panés (1807-1838)

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  Emmanuele Antonio Palacios (1865-1879)

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  Pietro Giovanni Aponte (1879-1894)

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  Sinforiano Bogarín (1894-1929)

Arms of Archishops

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  Sinforiano Bogarín (1929-1949)

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  Juan José Aníbal Mena Porta (1949-1970)

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  Ismael Rolón (1970-1989)

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  Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos (1989-2002)

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  Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga (2002-2014)

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  Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid (2014-2022)

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  Adalberto Martínez Flores (2022-present)

Arms of Archishops

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  Adalberto Martínez Flores (1997-2000)

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