Archdiocese of Buenos Aires

Archdiocese of Buenos Aires
Basic data
Country	Argentina
Diocesan bishop	Mario Aurelio Cardinal Poli
Auxiliary bishop	Enrique Eguía Seguí Joaquín Mariano Sucunza Alejandro Daniel Giorgi Ernesto Giobando SJ Juan Carlos Ares José María Baliña Gustavo Oscar Carrara
Vicar General	Joaquín Mariano Sucunza
founding	April 6, 1620
surface	205 km²
Parishes	186 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Residents	3,099,290 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Catholics	2,837,175 (2018 / AP 2019 )
proportion of	91.5%
Diocesan priest	458 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Religious priest	364 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Catholics per priest	3,452
Permanent deacons	8 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Friars	504 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Religious sisters	1,401 (2018 / AP 2019 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Spanish
cathedral	Catedral Metropolitana de Buenos Aires
Website	arzbaires.org.ar
Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Avellaneda-Lanús Diocese of Gregorio de Laferrère Diocese of Lomas de Zamora Diocese of Morón Diocese of Quilmes Eparchy of St. Scarbel of Buenos Aires Diocese of San Isidro Diocese of San Justo Diocese of San Martín Diocese of San Miguel Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires

The Archdiocese of Buenos Aires ( Latin : Archidioecesis Bonaërensis , Spanish : Arquidiócesis de Buenos Aires ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Buenos Aires , Argentina . Since 1936 the respective archbishop of Buenos Aires has also been the primate of Argentina .

Twelve suffragan dioceses are assigned to the archbishopric , including the Maronite Eparchy of St. Scharbel of Buenos Aires of the Syrian Catholic Church and the Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .

history

The archbishopric was founded on April 6, 1620 as the diocese of Buenos Aires , a suffragan diocese of the then Archdiocese of Paraguay by Pope Gregory XV. founded; the first bishop was the Spanish Carmelite Pedro Carranza Salinas OCarm. With bull Pope Pius IX. from March 5, 1865 the diocese was elevated to an archbishopric; the first archbishop was the Argentine Mariano José de Escalada Bustillo y Zeballos . On March 13, 2013, the then incumbent Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis.

Bishops of Buenos Aires

• List of Archbishops of Buenos Aires

Web links

• Official Website (Spanish)
• Entry on Archdiocese of Buenos Aires on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)

Commons : Archdiocese of Buenos Aires  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Noticias Históricas. Arzobispado de Buenos Aires, accessed March 28, 2013 (Spanish). 

Catedral Metropolitana de Buenos Aires