Diocese of Argentina
Argentinae
Eastern ordinariate immediately subject to the Holy See · Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Argentina
The Military Ordinariate of Argentina (Obispado Castrense de Argentina) provides pastoral care to Catholics in the Argentine Armed Forces. Created as a military vicariate in 1957 and raised to a military ordinariate in 1986, it is immediately subject to the Holy See, with Bishop Santiago Olivera as ordinary since 2017.
The see
- Rank
- Eastern ordinariate immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Erected
- 19 February 1959
- Latin
- Argentinae
- Patron
- Our Lady of Lujan
- Annuario code
- 001000312
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 339,125
- Priests
- 170
- Catholics per priest
- 1,995
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
- Santiago Olivera
- Born
- 7 January 1959
- 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 Stella Maris, Buenos Aires stands in Argentina, 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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia · GCatholic
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].