# Minister of Foreign Affairs (Paraguay)

This is a list of foreign ministers of Paraguay from 1846 to the present day.
* 1846–1855: José Falcón
* 1855–1862: Nicolás Vázquez
* 1862: Domingo Francisco Sánchez
* 1862–1868: José Berges
* 1868: Gumersindo Benítez (acting)
* 1868–1869: Luis Caminos
* 1869–1870: Serapio Machaín (acting)
* 1870: Bernardo Recalde (acting)
* 1870–1871: Miguel Palacios
* 1871: Carlos Loizaga
* 1871: José Segundo Decoud
* 1871–1872: José Falcón
* 1872–1873: Gregorio Benítez Inchausti
* 1873–1874: José del Rosario Miranda (acting)
* 1874: Cándido Bareiro
* 1874: Higinio Uriarte
* 1874–1877: Facundo Machaín
* 1877: Benjamín Aceval
* 1877–1878: Juan Antonio Jara
* 1878–1880: Benjamín Aceval
* 1880–1886: José Segundo Decoud
* 1886–1887: Benjamín Aceval
* 1887: Agustín Cañete (acting)
* 1887–1888: José Segundo Decoud
* 1888–1890: Juan Crisóstomo Centurión
* 1890–1894: Venancio Víctor López
* 1894–1895: Héctor Velázquez
* 1895–1900: José Segundo Decoud
* 1900–1901: Fabio Queirolo
* 1901–1902: Juan Cancio Flecha
* 1902: Manuel Domínguez
* 1902–1903: Pedro Pablo Peña
* 1903: Cayetano Carreras
* 1903–1904: Antolín Irala
* 1904–1905: Gualberto Cardús Huerta
* 1905: Cecilio Báez
* 1905–1906: Cayetano Carreras (acting)
* 1906: Adolfo Rufo Soler
* 1906–1908: Cecilio Báez
* 1908: Eusebio Ayala
* 1908–1910: Manuel Gondra
* 1910–1911: Héctor Velázquez
* 1911: Cecilio Báez
* 1911: Teodosio González
* 1911: Carlos Luis Isasi
* 1911–1912: Antolín Irala
* 1912: Fulgencio Ricardo Moreno
* 1912: Félix Paiva
* 1912: Eusebio Ayala
* 1912–1913: Félix Paiva
* 1913–1918: Manuel Gondra
* 1918–1919: Eusebio Ayala
* 1919–1920: Ramón Lara Castro
* 1920–1921: Manuel Peña Rojas
* 1921–1923: Alejandro Arce
* 1923–1924: Rogelio Ibarra Muñoz
* 1924–1925: Manuel Peña Rojas
* 1925–1928: Enrique Bordenave
* 1928–1931: Gerónimo Zubizarreta
* 1931–1932: Raúl Casal Ribeiro
* 1932: Higinio Arbo
* 1932–1934: Justo Pastor Benítez
* 1935–1936: Luis Alberto Riart
* 1936–1937: Juan Stefanich
* 1937–1938: Cecilio Báez
* 1938–1939: Elías Ayala
* 1939–1940: Justo Pastor Prieto Rojas
* 1940: Justo Pastor Benítez
* 1940: Tomás Andrés Salomoni
* 1940–1944: Luis Andrés Argaña
* 1944–1946: Horacio Chiriani Cotor
* 1946: Antonio Alberto Taboada
* 1946–1947: Miguel Ángel Soler
* 1947: Federico Chaves
* 1947–1948: César Augusto Vasconsellos
* 1948: Domingo Montanaro
* 1948–1949: Juan Emiliano O'Leary (acting)
* 1949: Federico Chaves
* 1949–1952: Bernardo Ocampos
* 1952–1953: Ángel Florentín Peña (acting to 1953)
* 1953–1954: José Antonio Moreno González
* 1954–1956: Hipólito Sánchez Quell
* 1956–1976: Raúl Sapena Pastor
* 1975–1983: Alberto Nogués (acting for Sapena to 1976)
* 1983–1988: Carlos Augusto Saldívar
* 1988–1989: Rodney Elpidio Acevedo
* 1989–1990: Luis María Argaña
* 1990–1993: Alexis Frutos Vaesken
* 1993: Diógenes Martínez
* 1993–1996: Luis María Ramírez Boettner
* 1996–1998: Rubén Melgarejo Lanzoni
* 1998–1999: Dido Florentín Bogado
* 1999: Miguel Abdón Saguier
* 1999–2000: José Félix Fernández Estigarribia
* 2000–2001: Juan Esteban Aguirre Martínez
* 2001–2003: José Antonio Moreno Ruffinelli
* 2003–2006: Leila Rachid de Cowles
* 2006–2008: Rubén Ramírez Lezcano
* 2008–2009: Alejandro Hamed
* 2009–2011: Héctor Lacognata
* 2011–2012: Jorge Lara Castro
* 2012–2013: José Félix Fernández Estigarribia
* 2013–2018: Eladio Loizaga
* 2018–2019: Luis Castiglioni
* 2019–2020: Antonio Rivas Palacios
* 2020–2021: Federico González Franco
* 2021–2022: Euclides Acevedo
* 2022–2023: Julio Arriola
* 2023–present: Rubén Ramírez Lezcano