Diocese of Deán Funes
Funesiopolitan(us)
Suffragan territorial prelature · Latin Church · Deán Funes, Argentina
Deán Funes is a Latin Church territorial prelature in Córdoba Province, Argentina, erected in 1980 from the Diocese of Cruz del Eje. Its ordinary holds episcopal rank and it is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Córdoba.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan territorial prelature
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 January 1980
- Latin
- Funesiopolitan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Mercy
- Annuario code
- 001000264
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 66,474
- Population
- 65,250
- Priests
- 9
- Catholics per priest
- 7,386
- Extent
- 28,700 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.3
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
- Enrique Eguía Seguí
- Born
- 9 December 1962
- 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 of Our Lady of Mount Carmel stands in Deán Funes, 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 Córdoba
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Córdoba.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Cruz del EjeCruz del Eje
- Archdiocese of CórdobaCórdoba
- Diocese of Villa MaríaVilla María
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Colón 584, x5200all Deán Funes [Córdoba], Argentina
- Telephone
- [03521]420.522
- [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].