Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
| Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña | |
| Basic data | |
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| Country | Argentina |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Resistencia |
| Diocesan bishop | Hugo Nicolás Barbaro |
| founding | 1963 |
| surface | 71,303 km² |
| Parishes | 24 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Residents | 588,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Catholics | 464,000 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| proportion of | 78.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 29 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 15 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 10,545 |
| Permanent deacons | 2 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Friars | 18 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 102 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | San Roque |
| Website | http://diocesissanroque.com.ar/ |
The Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña ( lat. : Dioecesis Sancti Rochi , span. : Diócesis de San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña ) is in Argentina situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña .
history
The diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña was on August 12, 1963 by Pope Paul VI. with the papal bull Supremum Ecclesiae from cession of territory of the diocese Resistencia as diocese Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña and subordinated to the archbishopric Corrientes as a suffragan diocese. On February 28, 1984 it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Resistencia as a suffragan. The Diocese of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña changed its name to the Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña on February 28, 1992 .
Bishops
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Bishops of the Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
- Ítalo Severino Di Stéfano , 1963–1980, then Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo
- Abelardo Francisco Silva , 1981-1992
Bishops of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
- Abelardo Francisco Silva, 1992–1994, then Coadjutor Bishop of San Miguel
- José Lorenzo Sartori , 1994-2008
- Hugo Nicolás Barbaro , since 2008