Diocese of Goya
Goyanen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Goya, Argentina
The Diocese of Goya is a Latin Church diocese in Corrientes Province, Argentina, erected in 1961. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Corrientes.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 April 1961
- Latin
- Goyanen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Rosary
- Annuario code
- 001001510
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 244,000
- Population
- 270,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 90.4%
- Priests
- 31
- Catholics per priest
- 7,871
- Extent
- 33,603 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 7.3
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
- Adolfo Ramón Canecín
- Born
- 25 March 1958
- Birthplace
- Formosa (Argentina)
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 Rosary stands in Goya, 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 Corrientes
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Corrientes.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CorrientesCorrientes
- Diocese of OberáOberá
- Diocese of PosadasPosadas
- Diocese of Puerto IguazúPuerto Iguazú
- Diocese of Santo ToméSanto Tomé
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Mariano I. Loza 592, w3450bxl Goya [Corrientes], Argentina
- Telephone
- [03777]421.578
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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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.