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The Catholic Church in Argentina comprises fourteen ecclesiastical provinces each headed by a Metropolitan archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into 48 dioceses and 14 archdioceses each headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
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 ...
List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Argentina This page was last edited on 26 September 2023, at 12:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of La Plata (erected 15 February 1897, as the Diocese of La Plata) is in Argentina and is a metropolitan diocese and its suffragan sees are Azul, Chascomús, and Mar del Plata. It was elevated on 20 April 1934.
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Justo; Roman Catholic Diocese of San Luis; Roman Catholic Diocese of San Martín in Argentina; Roman Catholic Diocese of San Miguel (Argentina) Roman Catholic Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos; Roman Catholic Diocese of San Rafael; Roman Catholic Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
Argentina: Ecclesiastical province: Buenos Aires: Metropolitan: Buenos Aires: Statistics; Area: 206 km 2 (80 sq mi) Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2010) 986,000 852,000 (86.4%) Parishes: 27: Information; Denomination: Roman Catholic: Rite: Roman Rite: Established: 11 July 1978 (46 years ago) Cathedral: Cathedral of St Michael the Archangel ...
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca (Archidioecesis Sinus Albi) is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church with an ecclesiastical province in the eastern region of the national capital's province of Buenos Aires, central Argentina.
On the same day that the martyr Hector Valdivielso Sáez – the first Argentine saint – gave his life on October 9, the International Eucharistic Congress of 1934 began that marked a revival of Argentine Catholicism, a milestone from which a new life of the Church in Argentina, the dioceses increased, vocations grew, new parishes were built ...