Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo

Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo Archidioecesis Sancti Ioannis de Cuyo Arquidiócesis de San Juan de Cuyo
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist
Location
Country	Argentina
Ecclesiastical province	San Juan de Cuyo
Statistics
Area	89,651 km^2 (34,614 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 664,000 608,000 (91.6%)
Parishes	41
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1826 (198–199 years ago)
Cathedral	San Juan de Cuyo Cathedral
Patron saint	St John the Baptist St Clement I
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Alfonso Delgado Evers
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Ioannis de Cuyo) is a Latin rite metropolitan diocese in Argentina.

Its archiepiscopal seat is San Juan Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de San Juan Bautista), dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, in San Juan, Argentina. The city also has a minor basilica: the Basílica di Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados, or the Basilica of Our Lady of the Forsaken.

History

• In 1826 Pope Leo XII founded the see as the Apostolic Vicariate of San Juan de Cuyo on territory taken from the Diocese of Córdoba del Tucumán.[1]
• Pope Gregory XVI elevated it to a diocese on 19 September 1834.
• On 20 April 1934 it was elevated to a Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo / Sancti Ioannis de Cuyo (Latin) by Pope Pius XI . On the same date it lost territory to create the dioceses of Mendoza and the suffragan Diocese of San Luis.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 638,183 Catholics (91.0% of 701,000 total) on 89,615 km² in 43 parishes and 216 missions with 96 priests (80 diocesan, 16 religious), 8 deacons, 85 lay religious (17 brothers, 68 sisters) and 21 seminarians.

Ecclesiastical province

The Metropolitan's suffragan sees are :

• Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rioja
• Roman Catholic Diocese of San Luis

Bishops

Ordinaries

Apostolic Vicar of San Juan de Cuyo

1. Justo Santa María de Oro, O.P. (O.P.) (1828-1834)

Bishops of San Juan de Cuyo

1. Justo Santa María de Oro, O.P. (1834-1836)
2. José Manuel Eufrasio de Quiroga Sarmiento (1837-1852)
3. Nicolás Aldazor, O.F.M. (1858-1866)
4. Venceslao Javier José Achával y Medina, O.F.M. (1867-1898)
5. Marcellino Benavente, O.P. (1899-1910)
6. José Américo Orzali (1911-1934)

Archbishops of San Juan de Cuyo

1. José Américo Orzali (1934-1939)
2. Audino Rodríguez y Olmos (1939-1965)
3. Ildefonso Maria Sansierra Robla, O.F.M. Cap. (1966-1980)
4. Ítalo Severino Di Stéfano (1980-2000)
5. Alfonso Delgado Evers (2000-2017)
6. Jorge Eduardo Lozano (2017-present)

Coadjutor archbishop

• Jorge Eduardo Lozano (2016-2017)

Auxiliary Bishops of San Juan de Cuyo

• José Hilarión de Etura y Cevallos (Ceballos), O.P. (1839-1849)
• José Benito Salvador de la Reta, O.F.M. (1881-1897)
• Juan José Marcos Zapata (1913-1951)
• Leonardo Gregorio Gallardo Heredia (1960-1961)
• Ildefonso Maria Sansierra Robla, O.F.M. Cap. (1962-1966), appointed Archbishop here
• Carlos María Domínguez, O.A.R. (2019-)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Silvino Martínez, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Rosario in 1946
• Enrique Pechuán Marín, appointed Bishop of Cruz del Eje in 1963

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Argentina

References

1. Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)

Sources and external links

• GCatholic, with Google map - data for all sections

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