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| UNTIL NOW HE WAS AUXILIARY BISHOP IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GUAYAQUIL |
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| The Discalced Carmelite Bishop, Anibal Nieto, has been appointed as the Bishop of the new diocese of San Jacinto de Yaguachi (Ecuador) |
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Communicationes
Rome (05-11-2009).- The Discalced Carmelite Bishop, Aníbal Nieto Guerra, has been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the first Bishop of the new diocese of San Jacinto de Yaguachi, in Ecuador, according to information published by the Holy See yesterday.
Monsignor Anibal, born in the Zamoran area of Fermoselle (Spain, 1949) was appointed auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Guayaquil and titular Bishop of Tuscany on 10th June, 2006, and ordained on the following 22nd July to the duties which have been his until now.
He entered the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1964 and as a member of the Burgos province of St John of the Cross, he began his novitiate in September 1965 and made his simple profession in 1967 in the Calahorra monastery.
After solemn profession at Oviedo in 1975, he was sent to Ecuador to the Carmelite Mission of Sucumbíos (now the Vicariate Apostolic), where he remained for three years before being sent to Quito to study philosophy and theology in the San José Major Seminary and the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.
He was ordained deacon in the Carmelite church in Quito by the Carmelite bishop L. Alberto Luna Tobar OCD, and became a priest on 8th August 1982 in the church of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Oviedo (Spain).
With the exception of the periods in Sucumbíos, Quito (1983-1986) and Cuenca (1989-1991), his priestly life unfolded in Guayaquil from 1983 to 2006, where he occupied the posts of superior of the Guayaquil community, as well as Parish Priest, Parochial Vicar and Director of the one hundred year old "García Moreno" school.
The new diocese
The new diocese of San Jacinto de Yaguachi, has a population of 715,856, of whom 618,301 are Catholics. With an area of 6,265 square kilometres of Ecuadorian territory, which before was part of the archdiocese of Guayaquil, the diocese has 42 parishes, 40 diocesan priests, 9 religious priests, 13 major seminarians and 3 permanent deacons. With this new diocese, there are now 24 ecclesiastical areas of jurisdiction in Ecuador.
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