Diocese of Zárate-Campana

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Diocese of Zárate-Campana
Map of the Diocese of Zárate-Campana
Basic data
Country Argentina
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján
Diocesan bishop Pedro Laxague
Emeritus diocesan bishop Rafael Eleuterio Rey
Oscar Domingo Sarlinga
Vicar General Edgardo Omar Galuppo
Tomás Llorente MSF
founding 1976
surface 5,924 km²
Parishes 33 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Residents 728,000 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics 660,000 (2014 / AP 2015 )
proportion of 90.7%
Diocesan priest 53 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious priest 35 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics per priest 7,500
Permanent deacons 13 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Friars 88 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious sisters 90 (2014 / AP 2015 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral Santa Florentina
Co-cathedral Natividad del Señor
Website www.obispadodezaratecampana.org

The Diocese of Zárate-Campana ( Latin Dioecesis Zaratensis-Campanensis , Spanish diócesis de Zárate-Campana ) is in Argentina situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Campana .

history

The diocese Zárate-Campana was on March 27, 1976 by Pope Paul VI. built with the papal bull Qui divino Concilio from cessions of territory of the dioceses of San Isidro and San Nicolás de los Arroyos . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of La Plata as a suffragan .

On October 4, 2019, Pope Francis subordinated the diocese to the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján, which was made a metropolitan seat on the same date, as a suffragan.

Bishops of Zárate-Campana

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ erezione della Provincia di Ecclesiastica Mercedes-Luján (Argentina), rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo di Mercedes-Luján e nomina del primo Arcivescovo Metropolita di Mercedes-Luján. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , October 4, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 (Italian).