Roman Catholic Diocese of Morón

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Diocese of Morón

Dioecesis Moronensis

Diócesis de Morón
Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception of the Good Journey
Location
CountryArgentina
Ecclesiastical provinceBuenos Aires
MetropolitanBuenos Aires
Statistics
Area130 km2 (50 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
655,000
511,737 (78%)
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established11 February 1957 (67 years ago)
CathedralCathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Morón
Patron saintImmaculate Conception
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopJorge Vázquez
Metropolitan ArchbishopMario Aurelio Poli

The Diocese of Morón is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Argentina. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Its cathedra is a Minor Basilica : Catedral Basílica Inmaculada Concepción del Buen Viaje, in Morón, Buenos Aires, in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, capital of the Morón partido, in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

History[edit]

Statistics[edit]

As per 2014, it pastorally served 664,000 Catholics (90.7% of 732,000 total) on 130 km2 in 53 parishes with 69 priests (53 diocesan, 16 religious), 30 deacons, 86 lay religious (25 brothers, 61 sisters) and 5 seminarians.

Bishops[edit]

Episcopal Ordinaries[edit]

Coadjutor bishop[edit]

Auxiliary bishops[edit]

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops[edit]

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Sources and external links[edit]

  • GCatholic - data for all sections [self-published]
  • "Diocese of Morón". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 17 May 2007. [self-published]