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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salta

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Ecclesiastical province
  
Salta

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
92,860 km²

Emeritus bishop
  
Moisés Julio Blanchoud

Parishes
  
57

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Argentina

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Mario Antonio Cargnello

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Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2010)797,000717,000 (90%)

Established
  
28 March 1806 (210 years ago)

Patron saints
  
James, son of Alphaeus, Philip the Apostle

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salta (erected 28 March 1806, as the Diocese of Salta) is in Argentina and is a metropolitan diocese, responsible for the suffragan Dioceses of Catamarca, Jujuy and Orán as well as the Territorial Prelatures of Cafayate and Humahuaca.

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History

It was created on 17 February 1807, the territory being taken from the ancient Diocese of Córdoba del Tucumán. Until 1898 it comprised also the civil Provinces of Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, and Catamarca, which were then detached to form new dioceses. It was elevated to an archdiocese on 20 April 1934.

Ordinaries

  • Nicolás Videla del Pino (1807–1819)
  • José Eusebio Colombres (1858–1859)
  • Buenaventura Rizo Patrón, O.F.M. (1860–1884)
  • Pablo Padilla y Bárcena (1893–1898)
  • Matías Linares y Sanzetenea (1898–1914)
  • José Calixto Gregorio Romero y Juárez (1914–1919)
  • Julio Campero y Aráoz (1923–1934)
  • Roberto José Tavella, S.D.B. (1934–1963)
  • Carlos Mariano Pérez Eslava, S.D.B. (1963–1984)
  • Moisés Julio Blanchoud (1984–1999) – Archbishop Emeritus
  • Mario Antonio Cargnello (1999–present)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salta Wikipedia
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