Diocese of Caacupé

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Caacupé is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Archdiocese of Asunción, which covers all and only Paraguay.
Its cathedral episcopal see is a Minor Basilica and National Shrine: Catedral Basílica Nuestra Señora de los Milagros, dedicated to Our Lady of Miracles, in the city of Caacupé, in Cordillera Department.

History

On 2 August 1960, the Territorial Prelature of Caacupé was established on territories split off from the Archdiocese of Asunción and from the Diocese of Concepción
Promoted on 29 March 1967 as Diocese of Caacupé
It enjoyed Papal visits from Pope John Paul II in May 1988 and Pope Francis in July 2015.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 262,724 Catholics on 4,984 km² in 20 parishes and 2 missions with 29 priests, 2 deacons, 44 lay religious, 6 seminarians.