Roman Catholic Diocese of Catamarca

Diocese of Catamarca Dioecesis Catamarcensis Diócesis de Catamarca
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Valley
Location
Country	Argentina
Ecclesiastical province	Salta
Metropolitan	Salta
Statistics
Area	68,765 km^2 (26,550 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 330,092 323,000 (97.9%)
Parishes	27
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	21 January 1910 (114 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Valley in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca
Patron saint	Our lady of the Valley
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Luis Urbanč
Metropolitan Archbishop	Mario Antonio Cargnello
Website
Website of the Diocese

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

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.^[1][2]

Ordinaries

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

Territorial losses

Year	Along with	To form
1969	Archdiocese of Salta	Territorial Prelature of Cafayate

References

1. "Diocese of Catamarca". catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2013-03-27. ^{[self-published]}
2. "Diocese of Catamarca". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 2013-03-27. ^{[self-published]}

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