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Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña

Sancti Rochi

Latin rite diocese seated at Presidencia Roque Saenz Pena, Chaco Province, erected by Pope Paul VI on 12 August 1963 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Resistencia. Bishop Hugo Nicolas Barbaro has led the see since 2008.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
1963
Latin
Sancti Rochi
Patron
Saint Roch and the Immaculate Conception
Annuario code
001002939

The see in figures

Catholics
436,000
Population
511,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
85.3%
Priests
40
Catholics per priest
10,900
Extent
71,303 km²
Catholics per km²
6.1

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
Hugo Nicolás Barbaro
Born
12 December 1950
Birthplace
Olivos

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 San Roque stands in San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, 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 Resistencia

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Resistencia.

The sees of this province:

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

History

In Argentina's Chaco province, this Roman Catholic diocese takes its seat at San Roque, within the city of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, a place commonly shortened to simply Sáenz Peña.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
General Martín de Güemes 260, h3700hjf Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña [Chaco], Argentina
Telephone
[0364]442.04.26; fax 442.52.85

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.