Diocese of Santiago del Estero
| Diocese of Santiago del Estero | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Argentina |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Tucumán |
| Diocesan bishop | Vicente Bokalic Iglic CM |
| Auxiliary bishop | Enrique Martínez Ossola |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Francisco Polti Santillán |
| Vicar General | Walter De la Iglesia Mario Rolando Tenti |
| founding | 1907 |
| surface | 72,273 km² |
| Parishes | 45 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Residents | 719.200 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Catholics | 647,280 ( 12/31/2014 / AP2015 ) |
| proportion of | 90% |
| Diocesan priest | 45 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 22 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 9,661 |
| Permanent deacons | 11 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Friars | 25 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 49 (December 31, 2014 / AP2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Spanish |
| cathedral | Nuestra Señora del Carmen Cathedral |
| Website | http://www.obispadosgo.org.ar/ |
The diocese of Santiago del Estero ( Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Iacobi de Estero ) located in Argentina was separated from the Apostolic Prefecture of Tumaco on March 25, 1907 and established as an independent diocese . At that time, his area covered the entire province of Santiago del Estero .
The 81,969 km² diocese, which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Tucumán, had 655,000 Catholics in 1950.
On March 1, 1961, it ceded some of its territories to establish the diocese of Anatuya . Since then it only consists of the departments Aguirre , Atamisqui , Avellaneda , Banda , Capital , Choya , Guasayán , Jiménez , Loreto , Miter , Ojo de Agua , Pellegrini , Quebrachos , Río Hondo , Rivadavia , Robles , Salavina , San Martín , Sarmiento and Silípica and the part of the Figueroa department west of the Río Salado .
Bishops of Santiago del Estero
- Juan Martín Yáñez y Paz , 1910–1926
- Audino Rodríguez y Olmos , 1927–1939, then Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo
- José Weimann CSsR , 1940–1961
- Manuel Tato , 1961–1980
- Manuel Guirao , 1981-1994
- Gerardo Eusebio Sueldo , 1994-1998
- Juan Carlos Maccarone , 1999-2005
- Francisco Polti Santillán , 2006-2013
- Vicente Bokalic Iglic CM , since 2013
