List of Archbishops of Buenos Aires
The following people were bishops and archbishops of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires .
The current archbishop has been the primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Argentina since 1936 .
Bishops
- Pedro Carranza Salinas OCarm (1620-1632)
- Cristóbal de Aresti Martínez de Aguilar OSB (1635–1641)
- Cristóbal de la Mancha y Velazco OP (1641–1673)
- Antonio de Azcona Imberto (1676–1700)
- Gabriel de Arregui OFM (1712–1716) (then Bishop of Cuzco )
- Pedro de Fajardo OSsT (1713-1729)
- Juan de Arregui OFM (1730–1736)
- José de Peralta Barrionuevo y Rocha Benavídez OP (1738–1746) (then Bishop of La Paz )
- Cayetano Marcellano y Agramont (1749–1757) (then Bishop of Trujillo )
- José Antonio Basurco y Herrera (1757–1761)
- Manuel Antonio de la Torre (1762–1776)
- Sebastián Malvar y Pinto OFM (1777–1783) (then Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela )
- Manuel Azamor y Ramírez (1785–1796)
- Pedro Inocencio Bejarano (1797–1801) (then Bishop of Sigüenza )
- Benito Lué y Riega (1802-1812)
- Mariano Medrano y Cabrera (1829-1851)
- Mariano José de Escalada Bustillo y Zeballos (1854–1865)
Archbishops
- Mariano José de Escalada Bustillo y Zeballos (1865–1870)
- Federico León Aneiros (Aneyros) (1873-1894)
- Vladislas Castellano (1895-1900)
- Mariano Antonio Espinosa (1900-1923)
- José María Bottaro y Hers OFM (1926-1932)
- Cardinal Santiago Luis Copello (1932-1959)
- Fermín Emilio Lafitte (1959-1959)
- Antonio Cardinal Caggiano (1959–1975)
- Juan Carlos Cardinal Aramburu (1975–1990)
- Antonio Cardinal Quarracino (1990-1998)
- Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio SJ (1998-2013) (later Pope Francis)
- Mario Aurelio Cardinal Poli (since 2013)