Diocese of Comodoro Rivadavia
Rivadaviae
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina
The Diocese of Comodoro Rivadavia is a Latin rite diocese covering Chubut province in Patagonia, Argentina, erected in 1957 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca. Its Cathedral of St. John Bosco is the only cathedral in the world dedicated to the founder of the Salesians.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 February 1957
- Latin
- Rivadaviae
- Patron
- St. John Bosco
- Annuario code
- 001001197
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 353,000
- Population
- 422,000
- Catholic share
- 83.6%
- Priests
- 19
- Catholics per priest
- 18,579
- Extent
- 234,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.5
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Jorge Luis Wagner
- Born
- 19 January 1967
- Birthplace
- Guaminí
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 St. John Bosco stands in Comodoro Rivadavia, 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 Bahía Blanca
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Bahía BlancaBahía Blanca
- Diocese of EsquelEsquel
- Diocese of RawsonRawson
- Diocese of Santa RosaSanta Rosa
- Diocese of ViedmaViedma
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Rivadavia 750, u9000akw Comodoro Rivadavia [Chubut], Argentina
- Telephone
- [0297]447.26.47
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery 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.
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 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
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].