Archdiocese of Resistencia

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Archdiocese of Resistencia
Basic data
Country Argentina
Diocesan bishop Ramón Alfredo Dus
Emeritus diocesan bishop Fabriciano Sigampa
Vicar General Roberto Ramón Silva
founding 1939
surface 28,250 km²
Parishes 30 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Residents 625,600 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics 504,500 (2014 / AP 2015 )
proportion of 80.6%
Diocesan priest 31 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious priest 30 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics per priest 8,270
Permanent deacons 15 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Friars 32 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious sisters 79 (2014 / AP 2015 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Spanish
cathedral San Fernando Rey
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Formosa
Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña

The Archdiocese of Resistencia ( lat. : Archidioecesis Resistenciae , span. : Arquidiócesis de Resistencia ) is in Argentina situated Roman Catholic Archdiocese based in Resistencia .

history

The diocese Resistencia was on June 3, 1939 by Pope Pius XII. built with the papal bull Ecclesiarum omnium cura from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and subordinated to this as a suffragan . On February 11, 1957, the Resistencia diocese gave parts of its territory to establish the Formosa diocese . The diocese Resistencia was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Corrientes on April 10, 1961 as a suffragan. On August 12, 1963, the diocese Resistencia gave parts of its territory to the establishment of the diocese Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña .

On February 28, 1984, the Resistencia diocese was elevated to an archbishopric by Pope John Paul II with the papal bull Ad perpetuam rei memoriam .

San Fernando Rey Cathedral in Resistencia

Bishops of Resistencia

Bishops

Archbishops

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