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Diocese of Cafayate

Cafayaten(sis)

Cafayate is a Latin rite territorial prelature (not a full diocese) in Salta province, Argentina, established in 1969 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Salta. Its prelate is Darío Rubén Quintana of the Order of Augustinian Recollects.

The see

Rank
Suffragan territorial prelature
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
8 September 1969
Latin
Cafayaten(sis)
Annuario code
001000256

The see in figures

Catholics
69,900
Population
54,625
Priests
13
Catholics per priest
5,377
Extent
40,000 km²
Catholics per km²
1.7

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
Darío Rubén Quintana, O.A.R.

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 Our Lady of the Rosary in Cafayate stands in Cafayate, 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 Salta

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Salta.

The sees of this province:

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

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.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

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].