Diocese of Rafaela
Raphaëlien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Rafaela, Argentina
The Diocese of Rafaela is a Latin rite diocese in central and northern Santa Fe province, Argentina, erected in 1961. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, and Pedro Javier Torres has been its bishop since 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 April 1961
- Latin
- Raphaëlien(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Guadalupe; Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001002711
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 289,690
- Population
- 325,126
- Catholic share
- 89.1%
- Priests
- 42
- Catholics per priest
- 6,897
- Extent
- 38,320 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 7.6
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
- Pedro Javier Torres
- Born
- 26 October 1946
- Birthplace
- Lomas de Zamora
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 Rafael stands in Rafaela, 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 Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of ReconquistaReconquista
- Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera CruzSanta Fe de la Vera Cruz
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Gral. Mariano Necochea 150, s2300ied Rafaela [Santa Fe], Argentina
- Telephone
- [03492]424.637
- [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].