Argentine military ordinariate

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Argentine military ordinariate
Basic data
Country Argentina
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Diocesan bishop Santiago Olivera
founding 1957
Parishes 4 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Diocesan priest 178 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Religious priest 17 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Permanent deacons 1 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Friars 17 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
Religious sisters 16 (December 31, 2015 / AP2017 )
rite Roman rite
cathedral Iglesia Stella Maris de Buenos Aires
Website http://obispadocastrenseargentina.org/

The Argentine Military Ordinariate ( Spanish Obispado Castrense de Argentina ) is a military ordinariate in Argentina and responsible for the Argentine armed forces .

history

The military ordinariate in the Republic of Argentina cares for members of the Argentine armed forces of Catholic denominations with pastoral care. It was made by Pope Pius XII. Erected on July 8, 1957. By mutual agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Argentina, the seat of the Argentine military ordinariate is located in Buenos Aires . Established as the Apostolic Vicariate from the proclamation of the papal bull of July 8, 1957 , it was elevated to a diocese on April 21, 1986. In 1957, the Archbishop of Córdoba , Fermín Emilio Lafitte , was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Argentina (military).

The military ordinariate remained vacant from 2007 to 2017. In 2005, the then military bishop, Antonio Juan Baseotto , publicly criticized the law proposed by the government of Néstor Kirchner to legalize abortion . Kirchner then relieved him of his functions as military bishop by decree. The Holy See stuck to Baseotto, but the army command made it practically impossible for him to exercise his office. Even after Baseotto was relieved of his office by the Pope in 2007 due to reasons of age, the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the Holy See were unable to agree on a new candidate to fill the office again. This only happened in 2017 under the government of Mauricio Macri .

Military Bishops in Argentina
No. Surname Office from to
1 Fermín Emilio Lafitte Archbishop of Córdoba
Coadjutor Archbishop of Buenos Aires
Titular Archbishop of Antioch in Pisidia 		1957 1959
2 Antonio Cardinal Caggiano Archbishop of Buenos Aires December 14, 1959 7th July 1975
3 Adolfo Tortolo Archbishop of Paraná 7th July 1975 March 30, 1982
4th José Miguel Medina Bishop of Jujuy March 30, 1982 March 7, 1990
5 Norberto Eugenio Conrado Martina OFM Titular Bishop of Satafis November 8, 1990 August 28, 2001
6th Antonio Juan Baseotto CSsR Bishop of Argentina, (military) November 8, 2002 May 15, 2007
7th Santiago Olivera Bishop of Argentina, (military) March 28, 2017

Web links
Commons : Argentine Military Ordinary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silvia Stang: La Justicia ordenó pagar la jubilación al obispo Baseotto. Un fallo de segunda instancia favorece al prelado, removido de sus funciones por un decreto de Néstor. In: La Nación , September 19, 2013, accessed May 16, 2017.