Diocese of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña
Sancti Rochi
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina
Latin rite diocese seated at Presidencia Roque Saenz Pena, Chaco Province, erected by Pope Paul VI on 12 August 1963 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Resistencia. Bishop Hugo Nicolas Barbaro has led the see since 2008.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1963
- Latin
- Sancti Rochi
- Patron
- Saint Roch and the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001002939
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 436,000
- Population
- 511,000
- Catholic share
- 85.3%
- Priests
- 40
- Catholics per priest
- 10,900
- Extent
- 71,303 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 6.1
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
- Hugo Nicolás Barbaro
- Born
- 12 December 1950
- Birthplace
- Olivos
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 Roque stands in San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, 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
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Resistencia.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of FormosaFormosa
- Archdiocese of ResistenciaResistencia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Argentina's Chaco province, this Roman Catholic diocese takes its seat at San Roque, within the city of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, a place commonly shortened to simply Sáenz Peña.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- General Martín de Güemes 260, h3700hjf Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña [Chaco], Argentina
- Telephone
- [0364]442.04.26; fax 442.52.85
- [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].