Diocese of Formosa
Formosae
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Formosa, Argentina
The Diocese of Formosa is a Latin Church diocese covering the Province of Formosa in northern Argentina, erected in 1957. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Resistencia.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 February 1957
- Latin
- Formosae
- Patron
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Annuario code
- 001001429
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 484,833
- Population
- 566,000
- Catholic share
- 85.7%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 11,019
- Extent
- 72,066 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 6.7
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 Vicente Conejero Gallego
- Born
- 5 April 1951
- Birthplace
- Plasencia
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 Carmel in Formosa stands in Formosa, 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 Resistencia
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Resistencia.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ResistenciaResistencia
- Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz PeñaSan Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Calle España 975, 3600 Formosa, Argentina
- Telephone
- [0370]4359.611
- [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].