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It was created as the Diocese of Paraguay by Pope Paul III on July 1, 1547, and was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Pius XI on May 1, 1929, with the suffragan sees of Benjamín Aceval, Caacupé, Carapeguá, Ciudad del Este, Concepción, Coronel Oviedo, Encarnación, San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, San Lorenzo, San ...
The church maintains the Presbyterian Institute of Paraguay - Brazil. It has several mission efforts in Paraguay, the latest outreach is in the Presbyterian Church in Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay. [6] It has congregations in Santa Rita, Concepcion, San Lorenzo, Belén and Asuncion. [2] [7] [8] In late 2013 a new church plant was launched in ...
Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay: [1] Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Asunción; Cathedral of St. Rose of Lima in Benjamin Aceval; Catedral Nuestra Senora de los Milagros in Caacupe; Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in Carapeguá; Cathedral of Saint Blaise in Ciudad del Este
The diocesan system of Catholic church government in Paraguay comprises only a Latin hierarchy, joint in the nation episcopal conference, no Eastern Catholic jurisdiction : one ecclesiastical province, headed by a Metropolitan archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into eleven suffragan dioceses, each headed by a bishop.
Evangelical and/or Charismatic churches have spread in recent decades mostly in the vast and long-established Mestizo population. The Bruderhof established a base in Paraguay in 1941, fleeing Nazi persecution. They left the country for North America in 1966, but returned and re-established themselves in 2010.
Television in Paraguay is most important among the country's mass media. Television programming is dominated by telenovelas, series, and news programming. Private and government-run channels coexist at the national, regional, and local levels. Cable channels are also beginning to appear, most of which are exclusive to the companies that operate ...
Trece is a Paraguayan free-to-air television network launched in 1981. It is the head station of the JBB Group, which as of 11 January 2016 adopted this name.Channel 13 was the second television station to start nationwide broadcasts, after SNT, the first to broadcast entirely in color [1] and the fourth television station to be set up in Paraguay overall including SNT's two inland affiliates ...
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption [1] (Spanish: Catedral Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción) (also called simply Asunción Cathedral) It is the main Catholic church in Asunción. [2] It is located in the neighborhood La Catedral, in the historic center of the capital of Paraguay.