Diocese of Gregorio de Laferrere
Gregorii de Laferrere
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Gregorio de Laferrere, Argentina
The Diocese of Gregorio de Laferrere is a Latin Church diocese in the Greater Buenos Aires area, Argentina, erected in 2000 from the Diocese of San Justo. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 November 2000
- Latin
- Gregorii de Laferrere
- Patron
- Christ the King
- Annuario code
- 001001525
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 644,000
- Population
- 714,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 90.2%
- Priests
- 47
- Catholics per priest
- 13,702
- Extent
- 1,393 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 462
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
- Jorge Martín Torres Carbonell
- Born
- 22 April 1954
- Birthplace
- Buenos Aires
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 Christ the King stands in Gregorio de Laferrere, 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 Buenos Aires
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Avellaneda–LanúsAvellaneda–Lanús
- Archdiocese of Buenos AiresBuenos Aires
- Diocese of Lomas de ZamoraLomas de Zamora
- Diocese of MorónMorón
- Diocese of QuilmesQuilmes
- Diocese of San Charbel en Buenos AiresBuenos Aires
- Diocese of San IsidroSan Isidro
- Diocese of San JustoSan Justo
- Diocese of San MartínSan Martín
- Diocese of San MiguelSan Miguel
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Obispado, Ricardo Gutiérrez 6037, b1757aiy Gregorio de Laferrere [Buenos Aires], Argentina
- Telephone and fax
- [011]4457-4844
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.