Catholicism in Argentina
The Roman Catholic Church in Argentina is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.
History
Already in 1570 the diocese of Cordoba was founded, which in 1620 was followed by the founding of the diocese of Buenos Aires. After it had come back in the 19th century the creation of new dioceses, there was 1934 a reorganization of the Argentinean dioceses were erected in which new church provinces.
Pope John Paul II had a major role in the pacification of the Beagle conflict in November 1978, the peace treaty between Argentina and Chile in 1984.
The Argentine Bishops can not agree for years on an open discussion of the role of the church during the military junta in Argentina ( 1976-1983 ). The Roman Curia responded for several years with increased influence on the situation, most recently with the appointment of bishops against the wishes of the conservative Argentine Episcopal Conference. First time in 2007, a Catholic priest was sentenced to life imprisonment for their involvement in crimes committed during the military dictatorship.
Organization
The Roman Catholic Church in Argentina is represented by the Argentine Bishops' Conference. The church is divided into 13 ecclesiastical provinces with 50 associated suffragan dioceses. This must be added a immediates archbishopric and three Territorialprälaturen.
The largest diocese is the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, which counts 2.5 million Catholics. But there are five other ( arch) dioceses that have more than one million Catholics (Cordoba, Lomas de Zamora, Rosario, Mendoza, and Quilmes ).
92% of Argentines are Roman Catholics, of whom practice on a regular basis a little less than 20% of their faith. Today, living in Argentina 34.48 million Catholics, ie 89.2 % of the population. In the 69 dioceses there are 2,642 parishes, which are managed by 3,577 diocesan priests, 2,071 religious priests and 9,070 nuns.
In Argentina, see, inter alia, Catholic private universities, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (Spanish: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina - UCA) in Buenos Aires, the University of the North Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Spanish: Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino - UNSTA ) in San Miguel de Tucumán and the Universidad Católica de La Plata.
List of Dioceses
- Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca: Diocese of Alto Valle del Río Negro, Diocese of Comodoro Rivadavia, Río Gallegos diocese, Diocese of San Carlos de Bariloche, Diocese of Santa Rosa, Diocese of Viedma, Territorialprälatur Esquel
- Archdiocese of Buenos Aires: Diocese of Avellaneda - Lanús, Diocese of Gregorio de laferrere, Diocese of Lomas de Zamora, Diocese of Merlo - Moreno, Diocese of Morón, Diocese of Quilmes, Diocese of San Isidro, Diocese of San Justo, Diocese of San Martín, Diocese of San Miguel
- Archdiocese of Córdoba: Cruz del Eje diocese, diocese of San Francisco, Diocese of Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto, Diocese of Villa María, Territorialprälatur Deán Funes
- Archdiocese of Corrientes: Diocese of Goya, Oberá diocese, Diocese of Posadas, Diocese of Puerto Iguazú, Diocese of Santo Tomé
- Archdiocese of La Plata: Diocese of Azul, Chascomús diocese, diocese of Mar del Plata, Diocese of Nueve de Julio, Diocese of Zárate - Campana
- Archdiocese of Mendoza: Diocese of Neuquén, Diocese of San Rafael
- Archdiocese of Paraná: Diocese of Concordia, Diocese Gualeguaychú
- Archdiocese Resistencia: Formosa diocese, diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
- Archdiocese of Rosario: Diocese of San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Bishopric Venado Tuerto
- Archdiocese of Salta: Diocese of Catamarca, Jujuy diocese, diocese of Oran, Territorialprälatur Cafayate, Humahuaca Territorialprälatur
- Archdiocese of San Juan de Cuyo: Diocese of La Rioja, Diocese of San Luis
- Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz: Diocese of Rafaela, Bishopric Reconquista
- Archdiocese of Tucumán: Añatuya diocese, Diocese of Concepción (Argentina ), Diocese of Santiago del Estero
- Immediate: Military Ordinariate, Archdiocese of Mercedes- Luján, Eparchy of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires