Diocese of San Carlos de Bariloche
Sancti Caroli Vurilocen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Latin rite diocese erected in 1993 in the province of Rio Negro. It is a suffragan see of Bahia Blanca and has been led by Bishop Juan Carlos Ares since 2023.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 July 1993
- Latin
- Sancti Caroli Vurilocen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Snows and Saint Charles Borromeo
- Annuario code
- 001002877
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 120,000
- Population
- 171,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 70.2%
- Priests
- 25
- Catholics per priest
- 4,800
- Extent
- 77,076 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.6
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
- Juan Carlos Ares
- Born
- 23 December 1963
- 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 Our Lady of Nahuel Huapi stands in San Carlos de Bariloche, 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 Bahia Blanca
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bahia Blanca.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Alto Valle del Río NegroAlto Valle del Río Negro
- Diocese of Río GallegosRío Gallegos
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Obispado, Pasaje Gutiérrez 893, r8400gac San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
- Telephone and fax
- [02944]423.142
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.