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Roman Catholic Diocese of Santiago del Estero

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Metropolitan
  
Tucumán

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
81,969 km²

Patron saint
  
James, son of Zebedee

Parishes
  
44

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Argentina

Bishop
  
Vicente Bokalic Iglic

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 686,000 605,000 (88.2%)

Established
  
25 March 1907 (109 years ago)

Auxiliary bishop
  
Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi (appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nueve de Julio, in Nueve de Julio, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, by Pope Francis, on Tuesday, May 12, 2015; he will assist and eventually succeed the diocesan Bishop there when he retires or dies)

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán

Emeritus bishops
  
Juan Carlos Maccarone, Francisco Polti Santillán

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santiago del Estero (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Iacobi de Estero) is in Argentina and is a suffragan diocese of Tucumán.

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History

On 10 April 1961 Pope John XXIII founded the Diocese of Santiago del Estero from territory taken from the Diocese of Tucumán. It lost territory to the Diocese of Añatuya when it was created in 1961.

Ordinaries

  • Juan Martín Yáñez (1910 - 1926)
  • Audino Rodríguez y Olmos (1927 - 1939)
  • José Weimann, C.Ss.R. (1940 - 1961)
  • Manuel Tato (1961 - 1980)
  • Manuel Guirao (1981 - 1994)
  • Gerardo Eusebio Sueldo (1994 - 1998)
  • Juan Carlos Maccarone (1999 - 2005)
  • Francisco Polti Santillán (2006 - 2013)
  • Vicente Bokalic Iglic (2013 - present)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Santiago del Estero Wikipedia
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