Roman Catholic Diocese of Zárate-Campana explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Zárate-Campana
Latin:Dioecesis Zaratensis-Campanensis
Local:Diócesis de Zárate-Campana
Country:Argentina
Metropolitan:Mercedes-Luján
Province:Mercedes-Luján
Area Km2:5,903
Population:900,000
Population As Of:2010
Catholics:636,000
Catholics Percent:90.9
Parishes:38
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Rite:Roman Rite
Established:21 April 1976 (years ago)
Cathedral:Cathedral of St Florentina in Campana
Cocathedral:Co-Cathedral of the Nativity of the Lord in Belén de Escobar
Bishop:Pedro Maria Laxague
Bishop Title:Bishop
Metro Archbishop:Jorge Eduardo Scheinig
Emeritus Bishops:Rafael Eleuterio Rey, Oscar Sarlinga
Map:Diocesi di Zárate-Campana.jpg
Website:Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Zárate-Campana (Latin: Dioecesis Zaratensis-Campanensis) is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján, in central Argentina on the Atlantic coast, having had a change of metropolitan from La Plata in 2019.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral Santa Florentina, dedicated to Saint Florentina, in Campana, and it also has a co-cathedral: Cocatedral Natividad del Señor, dedicated to the Nativity of Our Lord, in Belén de Escobar, also in Buenos Aires Province.

History

It was created by Pope Paul VI on 21 April 1976, by the Papal Bulla "Qui consilio divino" as Diocese of Zárate–Campana / Zaraten(sis)–Campanen(sis) (Latin adjective), on territories split off from the Diocese of San Isidro and from the Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos. The first bishop, Claretian Mgr. Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, chosen by Paul VI on 21 April 1976, received his episcopal consecration and took possession of the see on 4 July 1976.

Extent and statistics

As of 2014, it pastorally served 660,000 Catholics (90.7% of 728,000 total) on 5,924 km² in 33 parishes and 89 missions with 88 priests (53 diocesan, 35 religious), 13 deacons, 178 lay religious (88 brothers, 90 sisters) and 27 seminarians.

It includes the cities of Campana (credited in its title), (Belén de) Escobar, Zarate, Baradero, Pilar, Exaltación de la Cruz and San Antonio de Areco, all in the northern part of Greater Buenos Aires.

Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries

Auxiliary bishop

See also

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