Roman Catholic Diocese of Morón explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Morón
Latin:Dioecesis Moronensis
Local:Diócesis de Morón
Country:Argentina
Metropolitan:Buenos Aires
Province:Buenos Aires
Area Km2:130
Population:655,000
Population As Of:2004
Catholics:511,737
Catholics Percent:78
Denomination:Catholic Church
Sui Iuris Church:Latin Church
Rite:Roman Rite
Established:11 February 1957 (years ago)
Cathedral:Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Morón
Bishop Title:Bishop
Bishop:Jorge Vázquez
Metro Archbishop:Mario Aurelio Poli

The Diocese of Morón is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Argentina. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Its cathedra is a Minor Basilica : Catedral Basílica Inmaculada Concepción del Buen Viaje, in Morón, Buenos Aires, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, capital of the Morón partido, in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

History

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 664,000 Catholics (90.7% of 732,000 total) on 130 km2 in 53 parishes with 69 priests (53 diocesan, 16 religious), 30 deacons, 86 lay religious (25 brothers, 61 sisters) and 5 seminarians.

Bishops

Episcopal Ordinaries

Coadjutor bishop

Auxiliary bishops

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

See also

Sources and external links