Diocese of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto
Diocese of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto
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Country | Argentina |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Cordoba |
Diocesan bishop | Adolfo Armando Uriona FDP |
founding | April 20, 1934 |
surface | 58,519 km² |
Parishes | 52 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Residents | 470,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Catholics | 447,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
proportion of | 95.1% |
Diocesan priest | 87 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Religious priest | 13 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Catholics per priest | 4,470 |
Permanent deacons | 12 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Friars | 20 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Religious sisters | 51 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Spanish |
cathedral | Inmaculada Concepción |
address | Calle Buenos Aires 261 5800 Río Cuarto [Córdoba] Argentina |
Website | diocesisriocuarto.org.ar |
The Diocese of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto ( lat. : Dioecesis Rivi Quarti Immaculatae Conceptionis , span. : Diócesis de Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto ) is in Argentina situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in Rio Cuarto .
history
The diocese Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto was founded on April 20, 1934 by Pope Pius XI. established with the papal bull Nobilis Argentinae nationis from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Córdoba as the Diocese of Río Cuarto . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Cordoba as a suffragan . On July 12, 1995, the diocese of Río Cuarto changed its name to the Diocese of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto .
Bishops
Bishops of Río Cuarto
- Leopoldo Buteler , 1934–1961
- Moisés Julio Blanchoud , 1962–1984, then Archbishop of Salta
- Adolfo Roque Esteban Arana , 1984-1992
- Ramón Artemio Staffolani , 1992-1995
Bishops of the Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto
- Ramón Artemio Staffolani, 1995-2006
- Eduardo Eliseo Martín , 2006–2014
- Adolfo Armando Uriona FDP since 2014