Archdiocese of Santiago del Estero
Sancti Iacobi de Estero
Suffragan archdiocese · Latin Church · Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Elevated from a diocese (erected 1907) to an archdiocese on 22 July 2024, when the primatial title of Argentina was transferred here from Buenos Aires in recognition of the first see on modern Argentine territory. Led by Cardinal Vicente Bokalic Iglic since 2024. Sources differ on whether it remains suffragan of Tucuman or now heads its own province.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan archdiocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 March 1907
- Latin
- Sancti Iacobi de Estero
- Patron
- St. James the Greater and Our Lady of Consolation of Sumampa
- Annuario code
- 001002970
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 728,824
- Population
- 686,000
- Priests
- 56
- Catholics per priest
- 13,015
- Extent
- 81,969 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.9
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
- Vicente Bokalic Iglic, C.M.
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 Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel stands in Santiago del Estero, 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 Santiago del Estero
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Santiago del Estero (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi de Estero) holds the distinction of being the first diocese erected on territory of the modern Republic of Argentina. A Latin Catholic jurisdiction in the country's north, it long sat as a diocese within the ecclesiastical province of Tucumán, and even after being raised to an archdiocese and recognized as the Primacy of Argentina in 2024, it remains a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Tucumán.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Obispado, Avda. Belgrano Sur 450, g4200aar Santiago del Estero, Argentina
- Telephone
- [0385]601-7248
- [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].