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Diocese of San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires

Sancti Gregorii Narekiani Bonaëren(sis) Armenorum

Armenian (not Latin) rite eparchy established in 1989 for Armenian Catholics in Argentina, depending immediately on the Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia rather than any Latin metropolitan. As of March 2026 it is governed by Apostolic Administrator Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires.

The see

Rank
Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
18 February 1989
Latin
Sancti Gregorii Narekiani Bonaëren(sis) Armenorum
Patron
Our Lady of Narek
Annuario code
001002901

The see in figures

Catholics
16,900
Priests
1
Catholics per priest
16,900
Extent
2,780,400 km²
Catholics per km²
0.0

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

Apostolic Administrator
Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva (Apostolic Administrator)
Born
12 April 1968
Birthplace
Río Gallegos

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

Armenian Cathedral of Our Lady of Narek stands in Buenos Aires, 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.

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

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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].