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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán

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Ecclesiastical province
  
Tucumán

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
10,996 km²

Emeritus bishop
  
Luis Héctor Villalba

Parishes
  
47

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Argentina

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Alfredo Zecca

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 1,112,000 1,034,201 (93%)

Established
  
15 February 1897 (120 years ago)

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán (Latin: Archidioecesis Tucumanensis) is in Argentina and is a metropolitan diocese. Its suffragan sees include Añatuya, Concepción and Santiago del Estero.

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History

On 15 February 1897 Pope Leo XIII founded the Diocese of Tucumán from territory taken from the Diocese of Salta. Pope Pius XII elevated it to an archdiocese on 11 February 1957. It lost territory to the Diocese of Concepción when it was created in 1963.

Ordinaries

  • Pedro Miguel Argandoña Pastene Salazar (1744–1762)
  • Pablo Padilla y Bárcena (1898–1921)
  • Barnabé Piedrabuena (1923–1928)
  • Agustín Barrere, F.M.I. (1930–1952)
  • Juan Carlos Aramburu (1953–1967)
  • Blas Victorio Conrero (1968–1982)
  • Horacio Alberto Bózzoli (1983–1993)
  • Raúl Arsenio Casado (1994–1999)
  • Luis Héctor Villalba (1999–2011) (Cardinal in 2015)
  • Alfredo Zecca (since 2011)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán Wikipedia
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