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The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity (Spanish: Catedral Metropolitana de la Santísima Trinidad), is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina. [ 3 ] It is located in the city center, overlooking Plaza de Mayo , on the corner of San Martín and Rivadavia streets, in the San Nicolás neighbourhood .
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires was the second largest Catholic city in the world after Paris. [5] [6] In 2014 the Archdiocese pastorally served 2,721,000 Catholics (91.6% of 2,971,000 total) in an area of 205 km 2 in 186 parishes and 183 missions with 783 priests (456 diocesan, 327 religious), 11 deacons, 1,915 lay religious (477 brothers, 1,438 sisters) and 53 ...
Our Lady of Mercy Church of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Merced de Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Catholic church. [1] It is located on Calle Reconquista corner of Tte. Gen. Juan Domingo Perón Street, in the neighborhood of San Nicolas in Buenos Aires. [2]
The St. Maron's Cathedral [1] (Spanish: Catedral de San Marón) also called Maronite Catholic Cathedral of Buenos Aires is a religious building of the Catholic Church located at 834 Paraguay Street, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. [2]
Buenos Aires, for example, is a metropolitan archdiocese owing to its size and historical significance as the capital of the nation. An archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis), SJ, was elected as Pope on 13 March 2013 in the 2013 papal conclave.
The temple is the main church of the Armenian Eparchy of San Gregory of Narek in Buenos Aires (Eparchia Sancti Gregorii Narekiani Bonaërensis Armenorum) created in 1989 by the bull "Cum Christifideles ritus Armeni in Republica Argentina" of the then Pope John Paul II to meet the religious needs of the local Armenian Catholic community. The ...
This is a list of Catholic churches in Argentina. ... See: List of cathedrals in Argentina. Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral; Cathedral of La Plata; Córdoba ...
The Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, was built as part of the Franciscan monastery, completed in 1732 and dedicated to Our Lady of the Pillar. It is the second-oldest church in Buenos Aires, and has served as a parish church following the expulsion of the Franciscans in 1821.