Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guayaquil
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Guayaquil is an archdiocese located in the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador.Special churches
Ordinaries
Bishops of Guayaquil
- Francisco Xavier de Garaycos, appointed Archbishop of Quito
- Tomás Aguirre
- José María Lizarzabaru y Borja, S.J.
- Roberto Maria Pozo y Martin, S.J.
- Juan María Riera, O.P.
- Andrés Machado, S.J.
- Carlos María Javier de la Torre, appointed Archbishop of Quito
- Giuseppe Felix Heredia Zurita, S.J.
- Cesar Antonio Mosquera Corral*
Archbishops of Guayaquil
- Bernardino Carlos Guillermo Honorato Echeverría Ruiz, O.F.M. ; elevated to Cardinal in 1994
- Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín
- Antonio Arregui Yarza
- Luís Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M.
*Became Archbishop on 22 Jan 1956Coadjutor archbishop
- Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín
Auxiliary bishops
- Luis Tola y Avilés, appointed Bishop of Portoviejo
- Silvio Luis Haro Alvear, appointed Bishop of Ibarra
- José Gabriel Diaz Cueva, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cuenca
- Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros Durán, appointed Bishop of Ambato
- Ernesto Alvarez Alvarez, S.D.B., appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Cuenca in 1970
- Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, appointed Bishop of Azogues; future Cardinal
- Hugolino Felix Cerasuolo Stacey, O.F.M., appointed Bishop of Loja
- Luis Enrique Orellana Ricaurte, S.J., appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Quito
- Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo, M.C.C.I.
- Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno, O.F.M.
- Aníbal Nieto Guerra, O.C.D., appointed Bishop of San Jacinto de Yaguachi
- Marcos Aurelio Pérez Caicedo, appointed Bishop of Babahoyo
- Valter Dario Maggi, appointed Bishop of Ibarra
- Guido Iván Minda Chalá
- Giovanni Battista Piccioli
- Bertram Víctor Wick Enzler, appointed Bishop of Santo Domingo en Ecuador
- Antonio Crameri, S.S.C.
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
- Eduardo José Castillo Pino, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo in 2012
Suffragan dioceses
- Diocese of Babahoyo
- Diocese of San Jacinto de Yaguachi
