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Diocese of Orán

Novoranien(sis)

The Diocese of the New Orán is a Latin rite diocese seated in San Ramón de la Nueva Orán, Salta province, Argentina, erected in 1961. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Salta. Coadjutor bishop Claudio Pablo Castricone was named in 2026.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
10 April 1961
Latin
Novoranien(sis)
Patron
Saint Raymond Nonnatus (San Ramón Nonato)
Annuario code
001002464

The see in figures

Catholics
329,750
Population
378,554
Catholic share
87.1%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
32
Catholics per priest
10,305
Extent
56,880 km²
Catholics per km²
5.8

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
Luis Antonio Scozzina, O.F.M.Cap.

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 Ramón Nonato stands in Orán, 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 Salta

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Salta.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

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].