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Roman Catholic Diocese of Catamarca

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Parishes
  
27

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Argentina

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
68,765 km²

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Mario Antonio Cargnello

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2006) 330,092 323,000 (97.9%)

Established
  
21 January 1910 (107 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Valley in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salta

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Catamarca (Latin: Dioecesis Catamarcensis) is in Argentina and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Salta.

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History

On 21 January 1910, Saint Pius X established the Diocese of Catamarca from the Diocese of Tucumán. It lost territory to the Territorial Prelature of Cafayate when it was created in 1969.

Ordinaries

  • Barnabé Piedrabuena (1910 - 1923)
  • Inocencio Dávila y Matos (1927 - 1930)
  • Vicente Peira (1932 - 1934)
  • Carlos Francisco Hanlon, C.P. (1934 - 1959)
  • Adolfo Servando Tortolo (1960 - 1962)
  • Alfonso Pedro Torres Farías, O.P. (1962 - 1988)
  • Elmer Osmar Ramón Miani (1989 - 2007)
  • Luis Urbanč (since 2007)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Catamarca Wikipedia
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