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Diocese of Añatuya

Anatuyanen(sis)

The Diocese of Anatuya in Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina was erected on 10 April 1961 by Pope John XXIII and is a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Tucuman. Its current bishop, Jose Luis Corral Pelaez, S.V.D., has served since 2019.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
10 April 1961
Latin
Anatuyanen(sis)
Patron
Our Lady of the Valley
Annuario code
001000684

The see in figures

Catholics
130,059
Population
147,084
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
88.4%
Priests
35
Catholics per priest
3,716
Extent
68,000 km²
Catholics per km²
1.9

Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.

The bishop

Bishop
Jose Luis Corral, S.V.D.

A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.

The cathedral

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Valley, Anatuya stands in Añatuya, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.

The province of Tucuman

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Tucuman.

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Obispado, Avda. España 150, g3760aso Añatuya [Santiago del Estero], Argentina

This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.

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Sources

Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.