Diocese of Catamarca
Diocese of Catamarca | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Argentina |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Salta |
Diocesan bishop | Luis Urbanč |
Vicar General | Julio Alberto Quiroga del Pino |
Episcopal Vicar | Domingo Martín Chavez |
founding | 1910 |
surface | 68,765 km² |
Parishes | 27 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 401,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 356,800 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 89% |
Diocesan priest | 58 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 7 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 5,489 |
Permanent deacons | 1 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 7 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 27 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Spanish |
cathedral | Nuestra Señora del Valle |
Website | http://www.virgendelvalle.net.ar/ladiocesis.htm |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Catamarca ( lat. : Dioecesis Catamarcensis , span. : Diócesis de Catamarca ) is one in Argentina situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca .
history
The diocese of Catamarca was established on January 21, 1910 by Pope Pius X with the papal bull Sollicitudine from cession of the Apostolic Prefecture Tumaco and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires as a suffragan . On April 20, 1934 it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Salta as a suffragan. On September 8, 1969, the diocese of Catamarca gave up parts of its territory to establish the territorial prelature of Cafayate .
Bishops of Catamarca
- Barnabé Piedrabuena , 1910–1923, then Bishop of Tucumán
- Inocencio Dávila y Matos , 1927-1930
- Vicente Peira , 1932-1934
- Carlos Francisco Hanlon CP , 1934-1959
- Adolfo Tortolo , 1960–1962, then Archbishop of Paraná
- Alfonso Pedro Torres Farías OP , 1962–1988
- Elmer Osmar Ramón Miani , 1989-2007
- Luis Urbanč , since 2007