Roman Catholic Diocese of Gualeguaychú

Diocese of Gualeguaychú Dioecesis Gualeguaychensis Diócesis de Gualeguaychú
Cathedral of St. Joseph by Bernardo Poncini
Location
Country	Argentina
Ecclesiastical province	Paraná
Metropolitan	Paraná
Statistics
Area	33,887 km2 (13,084 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 326,500 294,000 (90%)
Parishes	34
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	11 February 1957
Cathedral	Cathedral of St Joseph in Gualeguaychú
Patron saint	Saint Joseph Our Lady of the Rosary
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Jorge Eduardo Lozano
Metropolitan Archbishop	Juan Alberto Puiggari
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gualeguaychú is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Paraná in Entre Ríos Province, eastern-central Argentina.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Catedral San José, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in Gualeguaychú, also in Entre Rios province, which also has a Minor basilica : Basílica de la Inmaculada Concepción del Uruguay, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in Concepción del Uruguay.

History

Established on 11 February 1957 as Diocese of Gualeguaychú / Gualeguaychen(sis) (Latin), on territory split off from its Metropolitan, the Archdiocese of Paraná.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 308,410 Catholics (89.7% of 343,789 total) on 33,887 km² in 35 parishes and a mission with 61 priests (48 diocesan, 13 religious), 4 deacons, 77 lay religious (23 brothers, 54 sisters) and 10 seminarians.

Bishops

Ordinaries

1. Jorge Ramón Chalup (1957-1966)
2. Pedro Boxler (1967-1996)
3. Luis Guillermo Eichhorn (1996-2004), appointed Bishop of Morón
4. Jorge Eduardo Lozano (2005-2016), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo
5. Héctor Luis Zordán, M.SS.CC. (2017–present)

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Ricardo Oscar Faifer, appointed Bishop of Goya in 2002

See also

• List of Catholic dioceses in Argentina

Sources and external links

• "Diocese of Gualeguaychú". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2007-03-31. ^{[self-published]}