Archdiocese of Resistencia
Resistenciae
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Resistencia, Argentina
Resistencia is in fact a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese (not a diocese) covering part of Chaco province, Argentina, erected as a diocese in 1939 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1984. Its suffragans are the dioceses of Formosa and San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, and Ramón Alfredo Dus has been archbishop since 2013.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 June 1939
- Latin
- Resistenciae
- Patron
- The Immaculate Conception; Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001002742
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 512,900
- Population
- 650,800
- Catholic share
- 78.8%
- Priests
- 67
- Catholics per priest
- 7,655
- Extent
- 28,250 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 18
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
- Archbishop
- Ramón Alfredo Dus
- Born
- 22 May 1956
- Birthplace
- San Lorenzo
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 Fernando Rey stands in Resistencia, 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
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of FormosaFormosa
- 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
- Arzobispado, Bartolomé Mitre 363, h3500blg Resistencia [Chaco], Argentina
- Telephone
- [03624]441.908; Tel. e fax 434.573
- [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].