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Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cafayate

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Parishes
  
7

Rite
  
Roman Rite

Country
  
Argentina

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Area
  
40,000 km²

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Mario Antonio Cargnello

Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cafayate

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2004) 54,625 53,194 (97.4%)

Established
  
8 September 1969 (210 years ago)

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Cafayate

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salta

The Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cafayate (Latin: Praelatura Territorialis Cafayatensis) is in Argentina and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Salta.

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History

On 8 September 1969, Pope Paul VI established the Territorial Prelature of Cafayate from territory taken from the Diocese of Catamarca and the Archdiocese of Salta.

Ordinaries

  • Diego Gutiérrez Pedraza, O.S.A. (1973 - 1990)
  • Cipriano García Fernández, O.S.A.(1991 - 2007)
  • Mariano Moreno Garcia, O.S.A. (2007 - present)

    • References

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