Diocese of Concepción
Sanctissimae Conceptionis in Argentina
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Concepción, Argentina
The Diocese of Concepción is a Latin rite diocese in Tucumán province, Argentina, erected in 1963 from the Archdiocese of Tucumán to which it is suffragan. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and its patroness is the Immaculate Conception with St. John the Baptist as co-patron.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 August 1963
- Latin
- Sanctissimae Conceptionis in Argentina
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001001200
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 313,200
- Population
- 320,000
- Catholic share
- 97.9%
- Priests
- 25
- Catholics per priest
- 12,528
- Extent
- 11,600 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 27
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
- José Antonio Díaz
- Born
- 23 October 1960
- Birthplace
- El Cano
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 the Immaculate Conception stands in Concepción, 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 Tucumán
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Tucumán.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of TucumánTucumán
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle España 1525, t4146ccg Concepción [Tucumán], Argentina
- Telephone
- [03865]421.376
- [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].