Roman Catholic Diocese of Gualeguaychú explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Gualeguaychú
Latin:Dioecesis Gualeguaychensis
Local:Diócesis de Gualeguaychú
Country: Argentina
Metropolitan:Paraná
Province:Paraná
Area Km2:33,887
Population:326,500
Population As Of:2006
Catholics:294,000
Catholics Percent:90
Parishes:34
Denomination:Catholic
Rite:Roman Rite
Established:11 February 1957
Cathedral:St. Joseph's Cathedral, Gualeguaychú
Bishop:Jorge Eduardo Lozano
Bishop Title:Bishop
Metro Archbishop:Juan Alberto Puiggari
Website:Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gualeguaychú is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Paraná in Entre Ríos Province, eastern-central Argentina.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral San José, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in Gualeguaychú, also in Entre Rios province, which also has a Minor basilica : Basílica de la Inmaculada Concepción del Uruguay, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in Concepción del Uruguay.

History

Established on 11 February 1957 as Diocese of Gualeguaychú / Gualeguaychen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Paraná.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 308,410 Catholics (89.7% of 343,789 total) on 33,887 km² in 35 parishes and a mission with 61 priests (48 diocesan, 13 religious), 4 deacons, 77 lay religious (23 brothers, 54 sisters) and 10 seminarians.

Bishops

Ordinaries

  1. Jorge Ramón Chalup (1957-1966)
  2. Pedro Boxler (1967-1996)
  3. Luis Guillermo Eichhorn (1996-2004), appointed Bishop of Morón
  4. Jorge Eduardo Lozano (2005-2016), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo
  5. Héctor Luis Zordán, M.SS.CC. (2017–present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

See also

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