Diocese of Oberá
Oberen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Oberá, Argentina
The Diocese of Oberá is a Latin rite diocese in Misiones province, Argentina, erected in 2009 from territory of the dioceses of Posadas and Puerto Iguazú. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Corrientes and its cathedral is dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 June 2009
- Latin
- Oberen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Anthony of Padua
- Annuario code
- 001002439
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 198,521
- Population
- 312,549
- Catholic share
- 63.5%
- Priests
- 30
- Catholics per priest
- 6,617
- Extent
- 8,717 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 23
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
- Damián Santiago Bitar
- Born
- 12 February 1963
- Birthplace
- Arroyo Cabral
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 San Antonio de Padua stands in Oberá, 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 Corrientes
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Corrientes.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CorrientesCorrientes
- Diocese of GoyaGoya
- Diocese of PosadasPosadas
- Diocese of Puerto IguazúPuerto Iguazú
- Diocese of Santo ToméSanto Tomé
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Gobernador Barreyro 730, n3360ajh Oberá, Argentina
- Telephone
- e fax [03755]405.320
- [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].