Vatican City, 24 June 2014 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. Skiper Bladimir Yanez Calvachi as
bishop of Guaranda (area 3,336, population 206,000, Catholics
187,700, priests 34, permanent deacons 6, religious 69), Ecuador. The
bishop-elect was born in Machachi, Ecuador in 1972 and was ordained a
priest in 1996. He holds a licentiate in dogmatic theology from the
Gregorian Pontifical University and has served in a number of
pastoral and administrative roles, including priest in various
parishes in the archdiocese of Quito, director of the historical
archive of the archdiocese,, notary of the ecclesiastical tribunal of
First Instance in Quito and chaplain of various higher colleges. He
is currently judge in the ecclesiastical tribunal of First Instance
in Quito, chancellor of the archdiocesan curia, editor of the
archdiocesan ecclesiastical bulletin, member of the metropolitan
cathedral chapter, priest of the parish of “San Juan Bautista” in
Sangolqui and episcopal vicar of the zone “Valle de los Chillos y
Machachi”.
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