Diocese of San Luis

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Diocese of San Luis
Map of the Diocese of San Luis
Basic data
Country Argentina
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo
Diocesan bishop Gabriel Bernardo Barba
Emeritus diocesan bishop Jorge Luis Lona
Pedro Daniel Martínez
founding 1934
surface 76,748 km²
Parishes 47 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents 437,000 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics 393,000 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of 89.9%
Diocesan priest 79 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest 10 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest 4,416
Permanent deacons 1 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Friars 31 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters 100 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Santuario Nuestra Señora de las Gracias
address Avda. Presidente Illía 268
5700 San Luis
Argentina
Website http://obispadodesanluis.com/

The Diocese of San Luis ( lat. : Dioecesis Sancti Ludovici in Argentina , span. : Diócesis de San Luis ) is in Argentina situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in San Luis .

It was on April 20, 1934 by Pope Pius XI. established with the papal bull Nobilis Argentinae nationis from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo and subordinated to this as a suffragan diocese.

Bishops of San Luis

See also

Web links

San Luis Cathedral