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Diocese of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires

Sancti Gregorii Narekiani Bonaëren(sis) Armenorum

Armenian (not Latin) rite eparchy established in 1989 for Armenian Catholics in Argentina, depending immediately on the Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia rather than any Latin metropolitan. As of March 2026 it is governed by Apostolic Administrator Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires.

The see

Rank
Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See
Tradition
Armenian Catholic Church
Erected
18 February 1989
Latin
Sancti Gregorii Narekiani Bonaëren(sis) Armenorum
Patron
Our Lady of Narek
Annuario code
001002901

The see in figures

Catholics
16,900
Priests
1
Catholics per priest
16,900
Extent
2,780,400 km²
Catholics per km²
0.0

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

Apostolic Administrator
Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva (Apostolic Administrator)
Born
12 April 1968
Birthplace
Río Gallegos

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

Armenian Cathedral of Our Lady of Narek stands in Buenos Aires, 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.

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Sources

The see's own website · 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.